🚀 go-pugleaf

JUST SAY NO!

Don't start this again.  While I'm sure that well meaning 
people copy and send these computer viruses out thinking that
they are doing good for Craig, it's all wrong, out of date,
and a huge bother to the very legitimate Make-a-Wish Foundation.

I don't have the details, but there have been many warnings about
this message.

For starters, this type of sympathy card-sending has gotten so
out of hand that Guiness Book of Records no longer keeps records on
this item.  (Go pick up a book in virtually any bookstore and check
it out!)  Last I heard, Craig is over 12 now (so this request is at
least 5 years old) he's not there anymore, doesn't want any more cards,
and would like this message to die away.  These messages are always of
the untracable "I got this message from someone who got it from someone
else who ..." variety.  Don't believe this rumor.

The named receipents have been inundated with so much mail that they
can't deal with it.  

By all means, don't pass this message on and don't send Craig your
card.

   -- Jon Lyons
      AT&T Bell Laboratories


PS -- There, that's my public service message for the year.  Now, back to
      work.

>To: s-news@stat.wisc.edu
>From: VPN@CU.NIH.GOV
>Date:     Wed, 04 Mar 92  09:35:36 EST
>Errors-To: owner-S-news@stat.wisc.edu
>Resent-To: S-news-list@stat.wisc.edu
>Resent-Reply-To: VPN@CU.NIH.GOV
>
>FORWARDED FROM: Geiss, Linda S.
>FROM: Lowrey, Mary E.
>
>TO:  Diabetes Division Field Staff                            DATE:  03-03-92
>     Diabetes Divison ALL CCD-DDT1                            TIME:  14:18
>
>SUBJECT:   Business Cards
>
>Dr. Frank Vinicor received a letter from a colleague at Emory U School of
>Medicine on behalf of a little boy with a WISH.
>
>    According to Dr. Musey, 7 year old Craig Shergold has a life threatening
>tumor and a very short time left to live.  Craig has expressed a wish to the
>"Make a Wish Foundation" to be entered in the Guiness Book of Records for the
>largest number of business cards received.
>
>    If you could assist Craig with his wish, it would be appreciated.  You
>may send a business card to Craig directly at:
>            Craig Shergold
>            c/o Make a Wish Foundation
>            3200 Perimeter Center East
>            Atlanta, GA  30346
>
>    or drop it in inter-office mail to me (M. Lowrey / K-10) for forwarding.
>
>    Dr. Musey also requested that this message be passed along to others who
>might help in making Craig's wish come true.
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>
>mary lowrey / DDT