On 16 December, dhowell wrote:
     

     > Houghton Mifflin Publishing Corporation will donate one book to a   
     > children's hospital for every 25 e-mails they receive.


     > Please e-mail them at:

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     > I hope everyone at your company can spare a few seconds to e-mail    
     > them and also let all your friends know.  So far, they have only     
     > recieved 3,400 messages.  Last year they recieved 23,000.
     
     
    I'm not tryin' ta' be a "scrooge" or anything, but I just have to ask 
is this *really* on the "up and up"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that 
dhowell ain't sincere in his request, I've just found that sometimes it's 
prudent to ask this kinda' question sometimes when you read something like 
this on the 'NET...

    One time when I was on another list, someone had posted something about a 
school class just getting their computer wired to the 'NET and they wanted 
emails from around the world, as many as they could get, to see just how many 
people it was possible to communicate with. Well I sent a message, and got one 
back asking where it was I got the email address, the flood of email kept 
crashing their server and they wanted to find out who was responible for 
starting it...the address wasn't a school class by the way.

    But if this is for real, heck I'll send a bunch of emails! Do they have to 
contain anything specific in the content?


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