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From: lev@suned0.nswses.navy.mil (Lloyd E Vancil)
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Subject: Re: humanitarian request
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:19:05 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.

>Mark North flames...
>Petrino, where the hell have you been all your life? This kid is already
>in the Guinness Book of World Records -- look it up.
and continues....
>DON'T DO THIS. The kid himself said he doesn't want to see another
>goddamn postcard as long as he lives. Which may be quite a while since
>last I heard he was in remission and Ok. Petrino get a clue -- if you're
......More invective deleted.

Poor Petrino,  tried to do something NICE and got publicly toasted...

  The problem here is that the community is too large and too imperfect.
After all Petrino probably heard about the kid not wanting any more cards,
it was on the national news, in the USA Today paper and all over the radio.  
But, face it, the guy is not one of your computers.  None of us are.  So
it didn't make a big impression.  He forgot.
  Then sometime later he sees a heart rending story on his local BBS and thinks
to himself, "Boy I bet I can really help out if I post a request on the News
net....."  Visions of heroic anonymity....

There's another one out there about how the Government owes us vets a "refund"
"with interest" on our Veteran's Life insurance.  It surfaces out here about
once every six or eight months.  Like all good romors it has some basis in 
fact.  There was a refund payed to some Veterans of the Korean war.  But other
wise it is wholly untrue.  Perhaps someone could do us all a favor and
keep track of all of these things.  Then we wouldn't end up like Poor
Petrino.
Volunteers?
L.

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