From: Larry Smith [lsmith20@ford.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 12:36 PM
To: Charles Hymes
Subject: A New Hoax????

I recently received a message from a high school friend that I believe may be a hoax. I found your site on the Internet and thought you might be interested in this one. I will forward the message to you if you want me to, but I will quote the main part below.


[begin quote]
Hello, my name is David "Darren" Bucklew. I live in
Pittsburgh, PA where I attend Bethel Park High School
and participate in many sports.

I have severe ostriopliosis of
the liver. (My liver is extremely
inflamed). Modern Science has
yet to find a cure. Valley
Children's Hospital has agreed to
donate 7 cents to the National
Diesese Society for every name on
this letter.

Please send it around as much as
you can.

		Thank you,

[end quote]

(P.S. The misspelling of disease was in the original message. I will assume that you do NOT want the message I received, unless you tell me otherwise.)

I'm glad that there is a place where we can check out weird sounding "stuff" and I want to help if I can to eliminate these problems.

Larry Smith