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Re: HELP URGENTLY NEEDED PLEASE

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William George Frank)
Tue Jun 10 14:21:43 1997

Date:         Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:19:58 -0400
Reply-To: William George Frank <wgf+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
From: William George Frank <wgf+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <Added.8nbN0ju00Udb1Kxk40@andrew.cmu.edu>

Seth Fulmer <usfulmer@MCS.DREXEL.EDU> writes:
> >        This person was definitely not a brother. The person gave thier
> address
> >as Thunder Bay Ontario, and said that they are going to school at what
> would be
> >(if I hang a name on it) the University of Western Ontario. (3 hours north of
> >Duluth Minnesota) So far as I know, being one of the people working on
> Canada,
> >we have no efforts further West at this time than Brampton Ontario. (part
> of the
> >soon to be Toronto Metroplex) I could be wrong... as always, and Dave
> Emery can
> >provide correction if I am. It looks to me like "spam"
>
> Hello!  I don't usually post things.  I'm more of a lurker just to gather
> information, however I felt this was necessary to post this time.  It seems
> that we have lost the purpose here of things.  The very motto of Alpha Phi
> Omega is "Be a Leader, Be a Friend, Be of service".  Someone posts to the
> list that they require money so that they might be able to attend the last
> year of their college education, and suddenly people are posting that we
> should not be a friend, and not be of service to this individual.  I'm not
> saying to help the person, or not to help the person, but it just seems
> that we're being a bit hipocritical here.  If you're not going to promote
> Leadership, Friendship, or Service, just don't say anything at all on the
> subject.  It's not worth the discussion.  I hope this doesn't offend
> anybody :)
>
>
> In Leadership, Friendship, and Service,
>                                                         Seth Fulmer

If you really believe that this is just an attempt to pay for college,
I have a bridge I'd like to sell you :-)

I think it is the action of a friend to point out scams.

-william

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