From: Lee R Hurtado [r.thornhill@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 3:25 PM To: Charles Hymes Subject: Another Craig Shergold? Hello, I've visited your page on internet hoaxes, which I found very informative. I was reminded of a possible hoax that was brought to my attention some months ago. It has to do with a letter, forwarded by E-mail, from a supposed Bosnian war orphan, pleading with the reader to send him school supplies (or something to that effect). It's written in very bad English, suggesting a poor education (as befits our image of a war orphan), and it's very, very sad. I have to wonder, though, how the person who sent this child's letter received it in the first place. Would a war orphan have access to a typewriter or computer? Even if the letter was handwritten, would he write in a foreign tongue? Wouldn't it make more sense for the letter to be written in his own language, then translated into English? I'm a little too suspicious of this story. It reminds me too much of the Craig Shergold hoax (child in dire straits asks readers to send materials). Have you heard anything about this? What are your thoughts? Thank you. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] >From perl-win32-announce-admin@lyris.activestate.com Fri Jul 31 19:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: from listserv.ActiveState.com (listserv.ActiveState.com [199.60.48.6]) by ixmail8.ix.netcom.com (8.8.7-s-4/8.8.7/(NETCOM v1.01)) with SMTP id TAA19321; for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 199.60.48.22 by listserv.ActiveState.com (Lyris SMTP service) 31 Jul 98 18:41:44 PDT7 from: to: Received: from [199.60.48.106] by dumbo.ActiveState.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id pa614083 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 18:41:35 -0700 Message-ID: <24678-39190@lyris.activestate.com> From: "ActiveState" To: "Perl-Win32-Announce Mailing List" Subject: 5.005 is here! Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 18:39:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Message-Id: <00e901bdbced$29ebeb40$6a303cc7@3d.ActiveState.com> List-Unsubscribe: List-Software: Lyris Server version 2.54, List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Help: X-List-Host: ActiveState Tool Corp. Reply-To: "ActiveState" Sender: perl-win32-announce-admin@lyris.activestate.com Precedence: bulk X-Lyris-To: [chymes@ix.netcom.com] X-Lyris-MemberID: 39190 X-Lyris-MessageID: 24678 X-listname: perl-win32-announce X-ListMember: [chymes@ix.netcom.com] Greetings from ActiveState! 5.005 is here! You've asked for it, and now it's here. ActivePerl, including Perl for Win32 based on Perl 5.005, is now available from the ActiveState Web site. Looking for TK? It's here too! Check out the Perl Package Manager, included with ActivePerl, for more info on how to get and install TK and other popular CPAN modules. Want more ActivePerl info? Visit the ActivePerl Web page on the ActiveState Web site at: http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl/ Once again, we'd like to thank all of you for all the great comments and suggestions you gave us on the first two releases of ActivePerl. We've used as many of them as possible while working on this release of ActivePerl. Please keep the comments coming! Email us at ActivePerl@ActiveState.com with your comments, suggestions, bug reports and questions regarding ActivePerl. We feel this is a great step forward for Perl on Win32 platforms, and we hope you enjoy using it. The Activators. --- You are currently subscribed to perl-win32-announce as: [chymes@ix.netcom.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to unsubscribe-perl-win32-announce@lyris.activestate.com For non-automated Mailing List support, send email to ListHelp@ActiveState.com