Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Come ON Message-ID: <599@loral.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 18:58:36 EST Article-I.D.: loral.599 Posted: Tue Oct 30 18:58:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 03:14:18 EST Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 41 [] Last Sunday I posted an article describing a friend who has been missing for the past week, and whose car was observed in the posession of a man who committed a felonious assault on a person at the Sacramento airport, and who dropped the missing person's wallet at the site, before driving away in her car. I posted the description, which announced a reward for information, to net.general, ca.general, sdnet.general and net.misc. I normally observe the convention of posting to only one, or at the very most, two, newsgroups. However, the gravity of this situation is extreme, and the widest distribution is in order. since then, I have received letters, some nice, some sarcastic, berating me for posting to net.general. To those individuals who wrote those letters, I submit the following: 1. SHE COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 2. SHE COULD CONCEIVABLY BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY (NOT LIKELY, BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE EITHER) 3. THIS IS NO DAMNED JOKE! 4. IF A FEW KBYTES OF NET TRAFFIC OR THE EXERTION OF READING THE LETTER IS TOO MUCH TO ASK TO HELP SAVE A PERSON'S LIFE, THEN PARDON ME, BUT I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! If this were a friend of loved one of yours, I doubt sincerely that you'd find one extra article in net.anything to be excessive. Be aware that my wording and language of the above implies extreme self-restraint. -- [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard