I need your help
Lisa Miles
the-robelady at home.com
Wed Sep 6 20:03:39 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 1098
This off-topic but my daughter LOVES Harry Potter and I LOVE my daughter.
My daughter is 12. Her name is M.E. She started an egroup for
Harry_Potter_Lover's. Everything was fine until egroups joined with yahoo
and decided members, even established members must be 13 or have parental
permission. It's obvious she does since she made me the owner. And if she
didn't lie about her age she wouldn't lie about parental consent.
I need you to email eGroups Customer Support on M.E. Miles' behalf to let
them know their NEW policy is wrong.
Their solution is for me to print out a consent form and fax it to them. I
don't have a fax machine and it's difficult for a homebound, wheelchair
person, the parent, to go pay to send a fax.The point is they are wrong!
Below is my letter I sent and if I can get as many people as possible to
email egroups on behalf of M.E. I'd appreciate it! Anybody you can get to
help email egroups, feel free to pass this letter on. I sent it to
suggestion at egroups.co
Thanks,
Lisa Miles
> My daughter and I started the Harry Potter_lover's egroup so that she
could
> be involved in a "chat" room type of setting only with my involvement. I
am
> the owner and moderator for her group and everything meets with my
approval
> before being posted.
>
> My daughter could easily have misinformed you of her birthday but she
> didn't. Instead of rewarding her for not misrepresenting herself you are
> punishing her by taking away her egroup privileges. Are you aware of my
> daughter's being a straight A student, IN 8th grade, high school algebra
and
> her test scores show that NATIONALLY she is in the 90% above average range
> in all areas? Yet YOU who don't know my daughter have decide to restrict
> privileges which is a form of punishment.
>
> When yahoo changed their age policy, my daughter lost her email account
and
> went to GO in lieu of my using a credit card to keep her account open.
Now,
> there is no simple alternative. I am disabled, don't work and don't own a
> fax machine. Your solution is an inconvenience. It is wrong for you to
> decide what is best for my daughter and whether or not she needs to have
her
> privileges revoked. My daughter has never abused her privileges with
egroups
> and is an upstanding human being; for you to place restrictions on her
after
> the fact is wrong. She already had accounts with egroups and yahoo
> established and then YOU decide to change your rules. She shouldn't be
> affected by a NEW rule it should be a new policy for newcomers.
>
> Her address at yahoo was mem_05 at yahoo.com
> Her address now is nameno at go.com
> The egroup YOU banned her from is Harry_Potter_Lovers
> Founded July 21, 2000
>
> A response to me, Lisa, (her mother) will be appreciated and an
explanation
> as to what she did wrong.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lisa Miles
>
> the-robelady at home.com
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