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From: stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: One Last Wish
Message-ID: <5059@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 10 May 91 15:07:36 GMT
References: <5175d1d7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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From article <5175d1d7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, by rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer):
> In article <3VwJ23w164w@bluemoon.uucp> dddean@bluemoon.uucp (David D. Dean) writes:
>>Hello:
> 
> (Sigh.  UseNet is a lossless transmission medium at all the wrong times.)
> 
>>                                LAST WISH
>>
>>          A brain tumor is cutting short the life of seven-year-old
>>Craig Shergold.  His Last Wish doesn't seem very much to ask; simply
> 
> As has been stated innumerable times within countless groups, Craig has
> enough cards.  Send no more.  Stop propagating this chain-article.  Tell
> your friends not to propagate it.  This is not a flame, just a wish that
> this thread would die someday.  (I fully expect it'll outlive me -- some
> day, somewhere in a galaxy far far away, three-eyed Slobors will be faxing
> cards to Craig...)
> --
> "The goons are riding motorcycles, but WE'VE  | (Steve) rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
>  got a whole big metal car! This will be like |       Hewlett-Packard
>  stepping on ants..." -- Freelance Police     | Massachusetts Languages Lab


Agreed agreed and agreed again.  It is even in Spaf's regular new user
questions postings!

Craig is now 11, so this thing has been going for 4 years.

If the bonehead CEO's at the place that first posted this want to ring
me (in the UK) for verificattion of this then my number is below.  

(Perhaps we should all send cards to Cliff Stoll?  :-)

Stephen Carter, Systems Manager, The Administration,
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