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[bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic): Best response I've seen yet to stupid "Craig Shergold" postings]

If you're not aware of who the Craig Shergold in the subject is, he is
the kid who has been dying of cancer for the last 8 years or so, and
on whose behalf we keep seeing net messages asking for postcards to
break the Guinness record.  Quite a while back, the Guinness folks
publicly requested that people stop sending cards, but the request
keeps popping up in strange newsgroups.  It's reached the point where
I have even put something in the regular postings for new users about it.

Jack Patrino happened to be the latest in a long string of people
posting yet another plea to burden the mail system with unwanted
postcards.... 

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Date:    Mon, 12 Nov 90 18:45:22 -0800 
From:    bostic@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
To:      /dev/null@okeeffe.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Best response I've seen yet to stupid "Craig Shergold" postings

Subject: Re: humanitarian request

        Jack Patrino is a 35 year old man who is slowly dying of a
degenerative brain disease unknown to medical science.  In the time that
he has left he would like to gather the world's largest collection of
uuencoded core dump files (especially from GNU EMACS) and /etc/termcap
files.  Please be generous and send these files to Jack Patrino, whose
EMAIL address is PETRINO@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU; please be aware of the
urgency of this request, which is why this message is being cross
posted into newsgroups that have nothing to do with kids dying of
cancer or adults dying of degenerative brain diseases.  Jack has already
received 3.5 gigabytes worth of core dump files (especially those rare
and delicious 9 megabyte GNU EMACS core dump files) but he's far short of
his goal of gathering 525.6 terabytes of files (which coincidentally is
enough data to fill a magnetic tape long enough to stretch to the moon
and back, twice!).

	Don't be afraid - Jack's system has 80 gigabytes of storage on
line and he's got a crew of doctors standing by to change mass storage
tapes as you keep those cards, letters, and deliciously large core
dump files, not to mention all of those /etc/termcap files.

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