On Thu, 11 May 1995, Kevin Joseph Petrini wrote: > > sorry to respond to a question that is not vw, but i was > sent a email message that there is a boy in new hampshire > who is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. they say > to send cards before august 25th to make sure he gets > the cards before he passes on to get into the guiness book > of world records. > > is this a farse too? > > kevin > Probably, Spammers have used the "dying kid" routine to get mail floods many a time. And even if it is for real, there are more important things in the world than receiving post cards or getting into the guinness book of world records. Someone should post that their kid is dying from some horrible disease and the kid wants to make a collection of VWs. :) Sorry if I offended you by making light of what you consider serious, but spamming is irritating.
Cheers <sstones@io.org> SStones Toronto, Ontario.
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