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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.databases,comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: HELP ME!!AA
Summary: I'm almost fell for it
Message-ID: <182@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 16:47:53 GMT
References: <5807@cup.portal.com> <2115@ur-tut.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <2115@ur-tut.UUCP>, syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam) writes:
> In article <5807@cup.portal.com> JJ@cup.portal.com writes:
> *Poor College Student needs Your Help!!   :-(
> *
> *Hi.  I just finished my junior year in college, and now I'm
> *faced with a major problem.  I can't afford to pay for my senior
> *year.  I've tried everything.  I can't get any more student loans,
> 
> *If you would like to help a poor boy out, please send $1 (you can
> *of course send more if you want!!  :-)
> 
> *PS.  Please don't flame me for posting this to so many newsgroups,
> *I really am in dire need of help, and if any of you were as desparate
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Were it not for the recent "Send a postcard to the little boy with
> cancer" fiasco (I never did figure out whether it was on the level
> or not, with so many arguments in both directions) I could almost
> believe this -- he sounds serious.  Since I just got out of a $14K/yr
> school via luck, financial aid and generous parents I can understand
> his position.













I almost wrote down the address, fished a dollar out of my pocket, and
mailed it off (having had much the same experience of being a poor college 
student at the end of my rope financially) -- until I started to think 
about it carefully.  People don't write checks for $1 -- they send cash.  
(Untraceable, and no way to prove who got it -- first clue).  We aren't 
given the full name of the poor college student anywhere in the posting 
-- second clue.  The address is a P.O. box, no street address -- third clue.

I will be charitable, and hope this was intended as humor, or perhaps
an experiment in psychology at the University of Nebraska.

Clayton E. Cramer