13.0280 validity of www.thehungersite.com?

Willard McCarty (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:24:41 +0000

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 280.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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To: humanist@kcl.ac.uk
From: Darryl Whetter <whetter@nbnet.nb.ca>
Subject: thehungersite.com
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:45:46 -0400
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Dear Humanist,

Has anyone read anything negative about http://www.thehungersite.com ?

The site appears to work with the UN's Wold Food Programme and seems to be
a benign and laudable combination of web advertising and the accountable
traffic of a web site. Visitors click on a "Feed Someone" button and a
donation is then suppossedly made to the UN's WFP. Visitors exit via
one-page of advertising. The advertisers are billed on a per-click basis
and they pay the small amount necessary for one unit of food in the WFP.

I am sad to admit that the site appears too good to be true. Has anyone
heard any hoax/prank stories about http://www.thehungersite.com ?

Darryl Whetter
Ph.D. Candidate,
UNB English Dept.
ph. (506) 455-7767
http://www.unb.ca/qwerte
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