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From: salmi@finsun.csc.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: humanitarian request
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Date: 11 Nov 90 13:40:46 GMT
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In article <26678.273c16eb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>We would appreciate your responding to the request of Craig Shergold who
>is a seven year old boy with an inoperable tumor on his brain.
>
>He has not been given a very long time to live and it is Craig's ambition
>to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest number of get

Readers of this group BEWARE.  "Dying boy's last wish" is one of the
most frequent (and blatant) hoaxes for unsuspecting neophyte
netters!

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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