On April 29 you forwarded to webmaster@mit.edu a long piece of mail about a
student in China with an unidentified disease.

I understand your concern for this person, and your desire to try to help
her by distributing the mail to people who might be able to help.

Unfortunately, webmaster@mit.edu is quite far from the right place for such
messages to be sent. We are not associated with a medical school; most of
us are Computer Science majors, and know nothing of conventional medicine.

Additionally, it's generally considered rude to forward unsolicited email to
people you don't know. Particularly when that email is long, as was the mail
you sent us. Even more particularly when the email is the sort that
overenthusiastically claims that you should "FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU
KNOW!!!!".

Perhaps you may learn something from my comments. Perhaps not. In any case,
please don't send us email that is utterly unrelated to the World Wide Web,
much less the web server we maintain. The address webmaster@mit.edu is for
mail which is of concern to the MIT SIPB Webmasters in their capacities as
maintainers of the web server www.mit.edu .