Nanook@cup.portal.com (09/02/88)
Make a wish come true....
This message may not belong in the group in which I'm posting it, but please
do not flame me. When I heard this story, I decided to pass the word along
to everyone and posting it in many of the major groups seemed to be the best
way to accomplish that end.
A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. He only wants
one thing before he dies. His wish is to be recorded in the Guiness Book of
World Records as being the person to have received the most post cards ever.
To this end I'm posting to everyone on the net requesting that you send David
a post card to help him get his wish. I would also appreciate it if you would
foreward this message to any local BBS's or news groups who may not get these
news feeds.
If you wish to mail a post card to David you may send it to the following
address:
David
c/o Aline Morin
Make A Wish Foundation
1820 Arabin Rd
West Palm Beach, Fl. 33406
Please send a card and help David's wish come true!
Nanook of the South
Nanook@cup.portal.com
uunet!portal!nanooktrey@ut-emx.UUCP (Trey Garlough, WN4KKN) (09/04/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: > Make a wish come true.... [...] > > Please send a card and help David's wish come true! > Sheesh! Where do these people come from? Trey Garlough, WN4KKN/5 Computation Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 ARPA: trey@emx.UTEXAS.EDU UUCP: {harvard,allegra,gatech}!ut-sally!ut-emx!trey
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (09/04/88)
Not again! Here goes yet another portal person, doing it again.
For those that don't remember, this hoax has gone by before, a few months
or a year ago, in (I think) misc.misc, or some such. I wish portal would
screen their users a bit, or reduce their use of aliases.
--
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesupjdu@ihopa.ATT.COM (John Unruh, NY9R) (09/04/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: > Make a wish come true.... > > This message may not belong in the group in which I'm posting it, but please > do not flame me. When I heard this story, I decided to pass the word along > to everyone and posting it in many of the major groups seemed to be the best > way to accomplish that end. > > A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. He only wants > one thing before he dies. His wish is to be recorded in the Guiness Book of > World Records as being the person to have received the most post cards ever. > To this end I'm posting to everyone on the net requesting that you send David > a post card to help him get his wish. I would also appreciate it if you would > foreward this message to any local BBS's or news groups who may not get these > news feeds. > Didn't this show up a few months ago, and then we had a "stop - he has received too many cards" message? -- John Unruh AT&T-Bell Laboratories ihnp4!ihlpx!jdu (312)979-6765
sampson@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Steve Sampson) (09/04/88)
In article <694@ihopa.ATT.COM>, jdu@ihopa.ATT.COM (John Unruh, NY9R) writes: > In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: > > Make a wish come true.... > > > > A young boy named David is dying. > > Didn't this show up a few months ago, and then we had a "stop - he has > received too many cards" message? > I wish he would kill himself and get it over with! This mother****er is probably responsible for suckering 20 people on the Portal system. What? Send the guy a gun, he's got enough cards.
zentrale@rmi.UUCP (RMI Net) (09/04/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com> Nanook@cup.portal.com writes:
: Make a wish come true....
[...]
: A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. He only wants
[...]
: Please send a card and help David's wish come true!
again and again and [...]
dl3norobert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) (09/04/88)
In article <5698@ut-emx.UUCP>, trey@ut-emx.UUCP (Trey Garlough, WN4KKN) writes: > In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: > > Please send a card and help David's wish come true! > Sheesh! Where do these people come from? Jay-Jay & friends?
lindsay@dscatl.UUCP (Lindsay Cleveland) (09/05/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com> you write: >Make a wish come true.... > >A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. > >Please send a card and help David's wish come true! > >Nanook of the South >Nanook@cup.portal.com >uunet!portal!nanook Gee...the "Dying David" joke (?!) usually takes a couple of years between appearances on the net...but this time it has been only a few months since its previous ressurection and interrment! Perhaps this short length between trying to gull the innocent is in itself a record of sort! :-) Cheers, Lindsay Lindsay Cleveland Digital Systems Co. Atlanta, Ga gatech!dscatl!lindsay (404) 497-1902 (U.S. Mail: PO Box 1140, Duluth, GA 30136)
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (09/05/88)
[ Where was I going again?..... Oh yeah! Grandma's house! ]
Greetings citizens of the Net. My name is Smedley Suckerbait. I am
dying of an incurable disease. I have a last wish to make, which you can
help me make come true. Before I pass from this life, I want to get into
the Guiness Book of World Records as the person to have owned the greatest
ever number of one megabit DRAMs.
Please send your DRAMs (no SIMM's, please) to:
Smedley Suckerbait
c/o well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Help me to die a happy man. Thank you.
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
\_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac
O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack")
"Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctordewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) (09/06/88)
Sorry, but when I saw that - In article <5698@ut-emx.UUCP> trey@ut-emx.UUCP (Trey Garlough, WN4KKN) writes: >In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ >> Make a wish come true.... [...] >> >> Please send a card and help David's wish come true! >> >Sheesh! Where do these people come from? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Trey Garlough, WN4KKN/5 >Computation Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 >ARPA: trey@emx.UTEXAS.EDU UUCP: {harvard,allegra,gatech}!ut-sally!ut-emx!trey I just had to point it out. Doesn't take long on the net to figure these out even without reading the path... Dewey Henize <snicker> -- =============================================================================== | execu!dewey Dewey Henize or juniper!dhenize | | Can you say standard disclaimer? I knew you could. Somehow... | ===============================================================================
schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster) (09/06/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com> Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: >Make a wish come true.... [crap about not flaming the author has been deleted...] >A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. He only wants Why do people insist on littering the nets with this crap? This hoax keeps returning, like a bad nightmare, every few months. It has been debunked on this net and the FIDO net of BBS systems, time and time again. Rather than sending a postcard to "David", let's email protests to the folks who propagate this drivel. ----- -- l\ /l' _ Mike Schuster {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!schuster l \/ lll/(_ Big Electric Cat schuster@dasys1.UUCP l lll\(_ New York, NY USA DELPHI,GEnie:MSCHUSTER CIS:70346,1745
peter@edsews.EDS.COM (Peter Zadrozny) (09/06/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com> you write: >Make a wish come true.... > >A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. > >Please send a card and help David's wish come true! > >Nanook of the South >Nanook@cup.portal.com >uunet!portal!nanook Hey Nanook get this message out of crontab, oncea yearis O.K., but every other month is too much. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Zadrozny peter@edsews.eds.com Oh my god, he can speak!!! uunet!edsews!peter Yeah, but don't tell anyone, he'll get fired (313) 645-4725 --------------------------------------------------------------------
stox@ttrde.UUCP (Kenneth P. Stox) (09/06/88)
In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: > > A young boy named David is dying. He has an incurable disease. He only wants > one thing before he dies. His wish is to be recorded in the Guiness Book of > World Records as being the person to have received the most post cards ever. > To this end I'm posting to everyone on the net requesting that you send David > a post card to help him get his wish. I would also appreciate it if you would > foreward this message to any local BBS's or news groups who may not get these > news feeds. > uunet!portal!nanook OH NO!!, are we going to go through with this again. I would think that everyone had caught on to this silly scam a long time ago. I do wish that this BOZO would not waste our time and bandwidth. Also, it seems that a large percentage of postings like this seem to originate from portal. Am I being fair in saying this ?? STOP useless meaningless wastes of time, bandwidth, and disk usage !!!! JUST SAY NO TO NANOOK OF THE NORTH !!!! ** I'm sorry for this folks, but if I see this one more time, I'm going to blow my stack !!! **
sorgatz@ttidca.TTI.COM ( Avatar) (09/07/88)
In article <4658@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >Not again! Here goes yet another portal person, doing it again. > This poor dweeb is most likely some assistant operator-person/tape ape/paper-jerker..hasn't been given the brainpower of a punched card and yet is grimly determined to be a do-gooder...wunnerful! >in (I think) misc.misc, or some such. I wish portal would >screen their users a bit, or reduce their use of aliases. You are dreaming. As long as the computing resources of major universities are made available to non-tech people this kind of crap will continue. It reminds me a great deal of the miserable use being made of a band of frequencies just below 10 meters...! DEATH TO BOOTLEGGERS! -- -Avatar-> (aka: Erik K. Sorgatz) KB6LUY +-------------------------+ Citicorp(+)TTI *----------> panic trap; type = N+1 * 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2973 +-------------------------+ Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun,philabs,randvax,trwrb}!ttidca!ttidcb!sorgatz **
larry@pdn.UUCP (Larry Swift) (09/07/88)
In article <697@ttrde.UUCP> stox@ttrde.UUCP (Kenneth P. Stox) writes: >In article <8684@cup.portal.com>, Nanook@cup.portal.com writes: >> A young boy named David is dying.... [etc, ad nauseum] >> uunet!portal!nanook >everyone had caught on to this silly scam a long time ago. I do wish that >this BOZO would not waste our time and bandwidth. Can someone identify, on the net for all to see, who "nanook" is? A more personal identification of an individual who cares so little about his fellow netters may have a more desired effect. Larry Swift UUCP: {peora,uunet}!pdn!larry Paradyne Corp., LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-8605 P. O. Box 2826 Largo, FL, 34649-9981 She's old and she's creaky, but she holds!
u-dmfloy%sunset.utah.edu@utah-cs.UUCP (Daniel M Floyd) (09/08/88)
I've noticed some *interesting?* postings from portal. Someone please tell us. What is portal? A business? A university? A government center? A school (grade?)? I'm not trying to flame portal. I think we'd all like to know though. I know I would. Response from portal or responsible hackers is just fine. P.S. Sorry portal. I tried to use my extinguisher, but after nanook's David-wish-myth ... P.P.S. I really do want to know the answer inspite of the cynical overtones.
thad@cup.portal.com (09/12/88)
(Just a client of PORTAL myself, but you asked) PORTAL is a network of clustered SUNs and is based in Silicon Valley. They provide access to various nets, and a HUGE "local" BBS and information service to its clients. With only 11 local incoming phone lines and over 50+ Telenet incoming lines, it's clear most their clientele is outside the "local" area; a large number appear to reside on the East coast. My conjecture is several thousands of subscribers to their service; most don't seem to utilize Usenet. I subscribe ($10/month, any baud, any time of day, any session duration) since it's the most cost-effective method for me to have Usenet and UUCP access; putting one of my "spare" machines on the net would cost considerably more re: power and phone costs. PORTAL does NOT provide access to the underlying UNIX. It's user interface is a rather sophisticated menu-driven system, and reading Usenet stuff is easy as can be since related material (per newsgroup) is collected based on the subject ... making browsing prior material a cinch. (OOPS: It's s/b Its; editing is a pain :-) What it DOESN'T do is include one's real name in the "From:" field, and it doesn't include a .signature in outgoing mail. As a workaround, *I* put a pseudo-signature on several function keys which I press after entering mail text. Thus, people like J-J and Nanook masquerade under pseudonyms. What's the bug deal on "pseudonyms"? Every UNIX system I've used has a login name and an "account/user name" (see /etc/passwd) (OOPS: bug deal -> big deal) Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]