kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) (11/12/90)
In article <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >Dear NetFolks, > >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. > > Sincerely, > Jack Petrino >PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I > hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation. I am having a hard time supressing an overwhelming urge to get real nasty with this reply. Those folks that don't seem to ever READ the news but yet insist on jumping in and leaving little tidbits like this are a real pain in the backside. You SHOULD apologize, Jack. You should apologize for not checking with the proper source before posting things like the above. You will probably get lots of flames and you deserve all that you get. The Craig Shergold thing is old-old-old. They have received more than 6 million cards and it has caused them additional hardships just dealing with them. Now, you CAN do something good. Go to all the places that you put this appeal and cancel it! The family has pleaded to STOP the flood of cards. -- ======================================================== Ken Abrams uunet!pallas!kabra437 Illinois Bell kabra437@athenanet.com Springfield (voice) 217-753-7965
lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg) (11/12/90)
In article <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >Dear NetFolks, > >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. AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!! >PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I > hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation. I suppose lots of people won't accept these apologies as this is the n-thousanth time this message appears. ITS JUNK!!!! Craig is dead already!!! And Guiness will *not* accept this kind of records anymore, because of all the trouble this brings to the hospital he or other requesters of this kind would be in. Do you realize that receiving loads of mail will completely lame the administration of a hospital as the normal mail service does *NOT* sort the mail to the addressed person? Please, STOP IT!!!! -- _ _ / U | Lex Wassenberg, Philips TDS, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands /__ < lexw@idca.tds.philips.nl 88 |_\ "Since nobody understands me, I speak only for myself."
erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune) (11/13/90)
In article <975@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>, lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg) writes: >In article <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>Dear NetFolks, >> >>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. > >AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!! > >>PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I >> hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation. > : >Craig is dead already!!! And Guiness will *not* accept this kind of records According to "News of the Weird," Craig recovered from his tumor but died when a stack of post cards fell him. Really. I couldn't make this up. -- Erik
eakin@rsmas.miami.edu (11/15/90)
In article <975@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>, lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg) writes: > In article <26692.273c192e@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> petrino@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >>Dear NetFolks, >> >>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. > > AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!! > >>PS - I apologize for the possible redundancy of posting this net-wide. I >> hope everyone can understand the necessity/urgency of the situation. > > I suppose lots of people won't accept these apologies as this is the > n-thousanth time this message appears. ITS JUNK!!!! > Craig is dead already!!! And Guiness will *not* accept this kind of records If Craig is dead, what was the news doing reporting on his trip to Disneyland two weeks ago? However, the gist is correct. The record was set and they don't want any more cards. -- C. Mark Eakin Internet: Eakin@RSMAS.miami.edu Amateur Radio: N4SYK Packet Radio: N4SYK@AB4LU.FL.USA.NA USnail: Univ. of Miami, RSMAS-BLR, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy. Miami, FL 33149-1098