I am sure that the websites that are pulled for soliciting are those who are trying to sell their products for financial gain or those who unscrupulously feed on ill and disabled people for financial gain. I am sure they will get what's coming to them when they meet their maker at the pearly gates.
I would like to give you one piece of advice that might help you and that is it might be a good idea to have someone vouch for you, to verify that you are who you say you are. You may think I am a horrible person for suggesting this but in this day of the internet you could be anybody.
It has been known in the past as I remember, a girl who said that she had cancer and set up a website to fund her surgery. I can't really remember all the details of her story or how she was found out to be a fraud. I remember she was very young and a lot of people were taken in by her and the fact that it was not all that long ago it will still be in peoples minds. So for your own safety it might be worth getting someone who knows you to guarantor for you.
I myself was very hurt this week to find out that someone whom I had emailed many times and had grown to love and respect, shared hurts and fears with her, thought I new her as a friend and then to be told that she signed up to my email group under another name to spy on me. It's a horrible feeling when you think you know someone and then you realise that they were a fraud. Which just goes to show with the internet it can be horrible as well as good.
I hope I haven't hurt you as sincerely this is not my intention, I am just one of those people who wear their heart on their sleeve and I know how emails can be misconstrued and taken the wrong way. I wish you all the best with your venture and would like to see you succeed and that others may follow and at last get some relief from this dreadful disease. I would also be happy to put your web url on my message board.
In Friendship Kath Findlay The UK Adhesion Society http://www.adhesions.org.uk Kath.Findlay@adhesions.org.uk Please feel free to roam the UKAS website, research all about Adhesions, causes, treatment and prevention. United we stand Knowledge is power ARD is our fight Surrender never
-----Original Message----- From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Sent: 24 January 2003 17:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS Subject: Re: Germany Fundraiser
I have been informed that this is not allowed to be on here, and will probably be pulled because solicitation is not allowed. All I was trying to do was show people where my site was, ask everyone to let their contacts know about it, and give others the idea of doing something like this in the future to get help. I hope that I haven't offended anyone, or upset anyone.
At Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Sarah wrote:
>
>Hi everyone. I hope everyone is having a pain free day.
>
>As many other women, I am trying to raise the money to go to Germany
for
>surgery. My wonderful, sweet brother has created a website for me,
>http://www.helpingsarah.com that I have sent out to all of my friends
about,
>and asked them to tell their contacts about.
>
>I realize that many of you are also saving money to go to Germany, and
>cannot help me, but I am asking if you would please email any of your
>contacts and let them know about my website.
>
>Also, I wanted to say thanks to Helen, who helped me quite a bit with
>some of the writing of the website, and some of the links. I really do
>appreciate it. I mentioned this site, and asked visitors of my site to
>visit here and read some of our stories, so hopefully we will get some
>more recognition.
>
>Thank you very much, and have a great weekend!