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Re: Easy good deed

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From: Jack Dracula
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:00
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> Here's an easy, no-cost way to help a child at the Holidays;
>
> Houghton Mifflin Publishing Corp. will donate 1 book to a Children's
> Hospital for every 25 emails which they receive.
>
> Please take a minute to send an email and forward this information to
> other email friends.  Last year HM received 23,000 emails;  so far
> this year they have only received 3,400.
>
> email them at:              SHARE@HMCO.COM
>
> It's never really been much easier to do a good deed.
> Please forward to others.

This sounds like nothing so much as the urban legend about the
kid with cancer who wanted to get a million birthday cards before
he died. It's like the GoodTimesVirus warnings; the massmailing is
propogated because of people wanting to do a good deed. 

						JD
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From: vampire@wam.umd.edu (Jack Dracula)
Subject: Re: Easy good deed
Date: 1996/12/12
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