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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: humanitarian request
Message-ID: <437@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 11 Nov 90 22:55:42 GMT
References: <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: kabra437@pallas.UUCP (Ken Abrams)
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In article <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Dear NetFolks,
>
>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.
>
>                                      Sincerely,
>                                                Jack Petrino          
>PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I
>     hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation.

I am having a hard time supressing an overwhelming urge to get real nasty
with this reply.  Those folks that don't seem to ever READ the news but
yet insist on jumping in and leaving little tidbits like this are a real
pain in the backside.

You SHOULD apologize, Jack.  You should apologize for not checking with
the proper source before posting things like the above.  You will probably
get lots of flames and you deserve all that you get.  The Craig Shergold
thing is old-old-old.  They have received more than 6 million cards and
it has caused them additional hardships just dealing with them.

Now, you CAN do something good.  Go to all the places that you put this
appeal and cancel it!  The family has pleaded to STOP the flood of cards.

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Ken Abrams                     uunet!pallas!kabra437
Illinois Bell                  kabra437@athenanet.com
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