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From: [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.answers
Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 19 Oct 92 05:15:58 GMT
Expires: 18 Dec 92 17:15:57 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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Archive-name: usenet-faq/diff1
Last-change: 18 Oct 1992 by mvac23![e-mail] (Thomas Lapp)


*** old/questions.n    Sat Sep 19 23:17:57 1992
--- ./src/questions.n    Sun Oct 18 23:39:13 1992
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  Original-author: [e-mail] (Jerry Schwarz)
! Last-change: 19 Jul 1992 by mvac23![e-mail] (Thomas Lapp)

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  Original-author: [e-mail] (Jerry Schwarz)
! Last-change: 18 Oct 1992 by mvac23![e-mail] (Thomas Lapp)

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       and the agencies involved have been appealing for people to stop.
!      So many postcards were sent (33 million as of May 1991) that the
!      agencies involved in the effort don't know what to do with them.
!      The Guinness people have recorded the boy, Craig Shergold, as the
!      record holder in the category (cf. page 207 of the 1992 US
!      edition).  However, they will not accept claims for a new try at
       the record.  For confirmation, you can see page 24 of the 29 July
--- 604,609 ----
       and the agencies involved have been appealing for people to stop.
!      So many postcards were sent that the agencies involved in the
!      effort don't know what to do with them.  The Guinness people have
!      recorded the boy, Craig Shergold, as the record holder in the
!      category.  However, they will not accept claims for a new try at
       the record.  For confirmation, you can see page 24 of the 29 July
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+      According to the 1993 edition of the GBWR, on page 213:
+     Craig Shergold (born 1979) of Carshalton, Surrey when
+     undergoing cancer chemo-therapy was sent a record 33
+     million get-well cards until May 1991 when his mother
+     pleaded for no more.  A successful 5 hour operation on
+     a brain tumour by neurosurgeon Neal Kassel at Virginia
+     University, Charlottesville, USA in March 1991 greatly
+     improved his condition.
+
       If you want to do something noble, donate the cost of a stamp and
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!      The most well-known gateway of this sort is ucbvax.berkeley.edu.
!      To post a message to the Usenet through that gateway, you take
!      the name of the newsgroup to which you want to post and convert
!      all of the periods to dashes, and use that as the address to
!      which to send your message.  For example, to post a message to
!      news.newusers.questions, you would mail it to
!      [e-mail].

!      Please do not use this service if you have other posting access
!      to the Usenet.

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!      One of them is decwrl.dec.com.  To use its gateway, you mail the
!      message you wish to post to [e-mail].
!      For example, to post to news.newusers.questions, you would send
!      your message to [e-mail].

!      Mail-to-news gateways of this sort tend to be overloaded.
!      Therefore, please do not use this gateway or any other similar
!      gateway if you have other posting access to the Usenet.

--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  [e-mail]    phone:  [phone]