a good deed of the week

[Henry M]

Lotta these hoaxs aren't evil. Lets not get More paranoid than we 
have to. This just looks like a few kids playing the race card to get 
some free publicity for a page. "Race card?" Yeah. A few more hits by 
mentioning African-American/D.C. Cynical, moi? 

On 26 Nov 96 at 1:04, Paul Murphy wrote:

> Date:          Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:04:29 -0500
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> From:          paul.murphy at utoronto.ca (Paul Murphy)
> Subject:       Re: a good deed of the week

> Henry M writes:
> 
> >Does anyone who has been on the net for a while believe this any
> >more than any other chain letter? Am I an evil product of my
> >generation for suggesting that it is a hoax?
> [fwd message]
> >> Hi, There are 3 ninth grade African-American Washington D.C. boys
> >> who entered a contest on the internet.  If they get the most
> >> people to visit their homepage they will all win college
> >> scholarships.
> 
> Maybe, maybe not. I went to look at the site and it's actually
> pretty interesting, and there's no sales-pitch (and I've been
> spammed more than enough, thank you). I'll give it the benefit of
> the doubt (unless it turns out that the thing dropped a cookie on my
> browser and has deciphered every last bit of information about me
> ... Paranoid? About technology? Who, me?)
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> 
> 

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