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Article #46Re: Easy good deed
From: Jack Dracula
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f4d5,6756a91326c0e0be,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f4d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10a9ce,6756a91326c0e0be,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a9ce,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,6756a91326c0e0be,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 101cd0,6756a91326c0e0be,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101cd0,public From: vampire@wam.umd.edu (Jack Dracula) Subject: Re: Easy good deed Date: 1996/12/12 Message-ID: <58phog$r9e@rac1.wam.umd.edu> X-Deja-AN: 203960195 distribution: um references: <6qohg0hcfx.fsf@darya.umiacs.umd.edu> organization: University of Maryland, College Park newsgroups: um.general,balt.general,dc.general,csd.grad