Greenbriar Academy School Project

Hello!

We are in the third grade at Greenbriar Academy in
Durham, North Carolina. We are located in Durham
County, near Raleigh, which is the capital of North
Carolina. Our social studies teacher, Ms. Thompson, is
helping us by using her e-mail address as our e-mail
receiver.

We have decided to map an e-mail project. We are
curious to see where in the world (which is our topic
of study) our e-mail will travel via the Internet. We
will be limiting our time to the period of December 1,
2000 to March 1, 2001 (only 3 months). This is not a
pen-pal project, so we will not write you back (unless
you request it). We would like your help. If you
receive this message, we ask that you:

1) e-mail back at MsThompsonsClass@yahoo.com and tell
us your city/state/country/location so we can plot it
on our map AND

2) send this letter on to everyone you know so that
they can send it on to everyone they know (and so on)
to help us reach even more people. (We do not mind
receiving repeats so send it on to everyone. We are
tracking the number of responses we receive by making
a graph using the numbers received by state and
country.)

Thank you for any help you can give. Our e-mail
address is: MsThompsonsClass@yahoo.com

Your friends,

Greenbriar Academy Third Grade Student
(Ms. Thompson’s Social Studies Class)
Durham, North Carolina

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When I sent an e-mail to the above address I got this auto-reply:
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Thank you for sending us a reply. Our project is going very well, thanks
to nice people like you! As of today, Thursday, January 11, 2001, we have
received 24,000+ replies (about 1000 per day)! Our note has traveled to
all of the continents: North America, South America, Europe Australia,
Africa, Antarctica, & Asia and been in EVERY state in the United States.
As the note jumps from continent to continent it has visited 104 countries
(out of 191)!

Our goal, now that we have covered the U.S.A. is to get an e-mail from
each foreign country. So, please send the message off to anyone you know
overseas.

Thanks again for your help!

Have a super day,
Ms. Thompson &
The Thrilling Third Tribe
Greenbriar Academy,
Durham, NC, USA