UKNM: free stuff

[Chris Heathcote]

Here's a mail from another company offering one of these "free stuff" 

offers (that went wrong) - anyone with any clue about the Internet 

can tell this is a load of bollocks.


c.


>

>From: DONALD CLINE <castlehillbookscompuserve [dot] com>

> >To: xxxxx

> >Subject: Re: Free Penguin Classic Offer

> >Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 05:45:11 -0400

> >

> >

> >Dear David

> >

> >Many thanks for your correspondence concerning the Penguin

> Classic offer.

> >

> >This offer had in fact closed by 10 am on Thursday 17th

> February, but due

> >to an email

> >prankster playing an early April fools trick on us, we had

> sowewhere in the

> >region of 20,000

> >requests in five hours!

> >

> >As far as we can work out , the prankster managed somehow to

> access some

> >address files and

> >forwarded our letter, thanking people for ordering a book from us and

> >confirming that the book was on it's way.


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