[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] humanitarian request

tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine) (11/13/90)

In article <26685.273c1836@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> decwrl.dec.com!sdd.hp.com!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!petrino@ucsd.edu writes:
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>Dear NetFolks,
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>We would appreciate your responding to the request of Craig Shergold who
>is a seven year old boy with an inoperable tumor on his brain.
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>He has not been given a very long time to live and it is Craig's ambition
>to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest number of get
>well cards ever received by an individual.
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>       Jack Petrino (DRAGON)        int: PETRINO@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU         
>       Systems Testing              bit:     PETRINO@UKANVAX
>       University of Kansas         vox:      (913)864-0443          
>       Computer Center              fax:      (913)864-0485    
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>PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I
>     hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation.

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

This situation is not urgent. This drivel has been circulating for
over a year. Craig Shergold, the Guiness Book of World Records, the
hospital, the post office and many others have been pleading for
people to STOP sending cards.

If I see this one more time, I'm going to devote the rest of my life
to developing a /dev/cattleprod that works through a network
connection.

However, there is a FAX number :-)

The *only* reason I am posting at all is to try to convince people to
remove this dreck from any and all computer storage media. A blowtorch
might be appropriate. PLEASE DO NOT PASS THIS ANY FURTHER!


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