lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) (02/08/91)
I just read in our Clarinet UPI feed that the dial-in 900 lottery in which you could possibly win a trip on the Soviet Mir Space Station has been declared an "illegal lottery" by the Harris County (Texas) DA's office. The DA finally decided to press charges of running a lottery after the people who were running the contest said that they would return all of the monies received from people who called in, and then did not actually return the money. If your site subscribes to the Clarinet service, check out the story in clari.news.top with a subject line like "Charges Filed against sweepstakes promoters". David Lemson U of Illinois Computing Services Student Consultant Internet : lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinois, Urbana