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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc,soc.misc,soc.net-people,misc.misc
Subject: Re: please help
Message-ID: <409@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 06:09:21 GMT
References: <1600@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
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Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Summary: Neato! Again!

It has been written:
>    I've just recieved some information regarding a little boy,
>    who users of the NET might be interested in helping.
> 
>  David is a 7 year old boy who is dying from Cancer.  Before he dies,
>  he has a dream of one day being in the Guinness Book of Records for
>  the person who has had the most postcards sent to them.  If you would
>  like to help David achieve his dream, all you have to do is send a
>  postcard to David as soon as possible.

This is great!  I've only been on the net a month and I've just
seen the *second* cycle of this perpetual hoax.  This makes the
rounds of magazines, _National Enquirers_ and talk shows (and
apparently the net) all the time and it generates tons of mail to
this fictitous person (the receiving post office hates it).  How
can this happen so often, and why is the little kid always in
England?

     Steve

-- 
Steve Friedl, KA8CMY     ARPA/UUNET/CSNet: friedl@vsi.com       *Hi Mom*
{kentvax, uunet, attmail, {ucbvax, ihnp4, sun}!amdcad!uport}}!vsi!friedl
"It's sad we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our motives"