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From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The phone number for Portal
Message-ID: <-70409151@sneaky>
Date: 28 May 88 02:26:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sneaky.UUCP!gordon    May 27 21:26:00 1988


To anyone who actually sent money to cup.portal.com!JJ:

The US Postal Inspector in charge of the area covering JJ's post office
box would like to hear from you:

Regional Chief Postal Inspector
Central Region
433 West Van Buren
Chicago, Illinois  60607-5401
Attn: Fraud Section

(312) 765-7900

Please send a copy of JJ's article, a letter of complaint explaining that
the article was NOT transmitted by mail but that the payment was, and 
details of the payment (having a cancelled check would be ideal.  Swearing
that you sent cash is helpful also).  If you have any substantiation that
JJ isn't nearly as poor as he says he is, or JJ's real name, send that
also.  

As far as the Post Office is concerned, blatant panhandling over USENET is
not illegal until the U.S. Mail is actually used to receive payments (and
with a Post Office Box, it's hard to send by any other method, like UPS
or Federal Express).  

They are interested in the article even without payment involved, but
it would do little good to innundate the Post Office with thousands of
copies of the article with no proof of a crime.

				Gordon Burditt
				...!ihnp4!sys1!sneaky!gordon