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From: ayers@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: sweepstakes odds
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 15:04:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 15:04:00 1986
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>If so, show me how, with a 20% return rate for entries, and
>less than 200,000,000 households in the country, the odds can
>be any worse than 40,000,000 to 1.


Being in Dallas, I also read the article claiming 1/2 BILLION to 1 odds 
(but remembered it with 3 less zeros -- however, the poster was probably 
right; my memory is not what I used to think it was...).  The article writer 
listed sources for the figures, so that anyone could double-check.

As for the "less than 200 million households" question, I have (so far) 
received almost a dozen entries from Eddie's little promotion. (At the 
office, at my business P.O., and my personal P.O. -- If I accepted mail  
at home, it would be even more.)  Because my name is listed with various 
groups (magazines, state and federal licensing agencies, etc), and not
always in the same manner (First name alone, First name misspelled, 
First name and Middle initial, First and Middle initial, etc), I show up 
on the lists many times.  That, BTW, is not counting the entries that have 
appeared for my SO, my son, and my mother (who sometimes gets mail at my 
P.O.).  Nor does it count the number of entries received that were addressed 
to "MR. HANDMADE BY BLUES, II" (the name of my business).  

Now, I don't send in this stuff, but if people did, it seems that they'd be
likely to send in _all_ the ones they received, under whatever name, in order
to increase their odds...

[just a thought]
blues, II