warning: children's books & hospitals

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It seems I have been trapped with the message about friendly publishers who
donate books to kids. Please read the following message by John Benfield.
I apologize if I caused bad things to happen. It is Christmas time, when
donations of books may not be unlikely...

Heinz

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>From: "John Benfield" <jnb@nhm.ac.uk>
>To: <Hilbrecht@erdw.ethz.ch>
>Cc: <paleonet@ucmp1.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: Books for children's hospitals (fwd)
>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 12:12:12 -0000
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>X-Priority: 3
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>Dear All,
>
>BEWARE!  I just spent sometime wading through messages about this alleged
>prank on another digest I am on.
>
>It is either a hoax,  a prank to swamp the server of the organisation
>involved, or it is genuine BUT an already accomplished appeal that is no
>longer active -- check their web site.
>
>John Benfield

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I forward this message to Paleonet after receiving the following message
from John Benfield:

Dear Heinz,

Can you do me a favour and pass on my message to paleonet -- I no longer
seem to be subscribed although I still receive messages!

Thanks in advance,

John
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>> From: Heinz Hilbrecht <Hilbrecht@erdw.ethz.ch>
>
>> Because some of us have kids I forward this message to Paleonet. Let us
>> send them a few paleo message. Maybe they include a couple of dinosaur
>> books in their donation.
>
>> >>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
>> >>
>> >>          share@hmco.com.
>> >>
>> >>I hope you can spare the seconds, and let your friends know.  So
>> >>far they have only received 3,400 messages.  Last year they reached
>> >>23,000.
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Geological Institute
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