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From: think!barmar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: 900 Number Sweepstakes, Space Flight is Prize!
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In article <15647@accuvax.nwu.edu> GREEN@wilma.wharton.upenn.edu
(Scott D. Green) writes:

>	"It's our position we are not conducting a lottery and we are
>conducting a legal sweepstakes because purchase is not required,"
>Davidson said.

>	Texas law bars charging people for a chance to win something.
>[what then is the $2.95 cost of the call? -sg]

It's presumably for the convenience of entering by phone.  You can
enter the contest for free by mail.


Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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