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IP: free books for kids, SORRY!!!!!
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:56:05 -0400
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:53:46 -0400 From: Lenny Foner <foner () media mit edu> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: IP: free books for kids Cc: foner () media mit edu NO NO NO! This is an endlessly-circulating bogon like the Craig Shergold problem. Don't forward it, and please rescind your letter below. (Even if they didn't learn and they're doing it -again-, I'm highly suspicious of any such letter that (a) doesn't have the date of start and date of end of the promotion, and (b) doesn't have a web page to check for further info, including whether it's already over. And you should be, too, of any such letter---you know how these things can circulate for years...) I have a couple of letters from H-M and people who know friends there from last time this went around as to how much of a problem this was for them, if you're interested, but lack of cutoff dates and ways to check the message should be clue enough that this should -not- be forwarded... Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:44:19 -0400 From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: free books for kids Date: Tue, 27 May 97 09:10:19 -0800 From: Meryl Natchez <meryln () mastersoftware com> The Houghton-Miffin publishing company is giving books to children's hospitals; the number of books they give depends on how many e-mails they receive. For every 25 e-mails they receive, they give one book. All you have to do is send an e-mail to: share () hmco com and write "give kids books" in the subject line. It only takes a few minutes. So far they have only received 400 messages, last year they received 23,000. PLEASE pass on the message!
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