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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,can.general
Subject: Isn't that postcard kid dead?
Message-ID: <257829B3.7232@telly.on.ca>
Date: 2 Dec 89 19:59:46 GMT
Organization: Public Access Usenet, Brampton, Ontario
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Sometime back, the net was exposed to requests for people to send
postcards to this kid in Surrey, UK who had canver and wanted to break a
record for receiving the most postcards.

At the time the request was denounced by some as a hoax. Some suggested
the kid in question was dead.

This week, while I was at a client's site near Barrie, Ontario, they received
an anonymous fax mentioning the kid's quest, with a request to fax the
notice on to 10 other places. Judging from the print quality I'd say it had
already been passed along four or five times. There was an extensive
list of Canadian companies, big and small, who had tacked their names on
before re-sending the notice.

(Yes, I know most fax systems identify their origins with a small header
across the top. This one didn't.)

Is this postcard thing legit or not? Was it ever?
-- 
  Evan Leibovitch, Telly Computing, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
          evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416)452-0504
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