Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihopb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihopb!spear From: spear@ihopb.UUCP (Steven Spearman) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal Subject: Re: Contest Rules Message-ID: <604@ihopb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 09:14:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ihopb.604 Posted: Thu Aug 23 09:14:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Aug-84 04:05:44 EDT References: <4137@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 For a while, many of the by-mail contests published their odds, presumably under some government pressure which they seem to have now gotten around. But it was interesting to see what your chances were. For example, the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes had about a 8 cents return on the average for your 20 cents stamp when I checked it. -- Steve Spearman ihnp4!ihopb!spear