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  3. From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.audio
  5. Subject: Re: U4ia RELEIF FUND. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SUPPORTERS
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep7.154531.5412@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  7. Date: 7 Sep 92 15:45:31 GMT
  8. References: <1992Sep5.154148.58658@cc.usu.edu> <1992Sep5.155718.58659@cc.usu.edu> <1992Sep5.160219.58662@cc.usu.edu> <1992Sep7.125857.880@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
  9. Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
  10. Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  11. Lines: 40
  12.  
  13. s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pumpkin Power) writes:
  14.  
  15. >The news has been FULL of these posts for 2 weeks now.  Would you send
  16. >Azatoth or Celebrandil cash if they suddenly blew their power supplies and
  17. >had to stop coding?  Would you send Uno money if he burnt his copy of DPaint
  18. >and needed to replace it?  Every time you see some other PD/Demo author
  19. >say they've broken their hardware are you going to help them replce it?
  20.  
  21. >I think the answer is simply NO, you'd expect them to go out and get a part
  22. >time job or something and pay for the replacement themselves, and not whinge
  23. >to news about it every day for the next few months until they scrape
  24. >together enough money.  If you want to post once, FINE, and leave it at that.
  25. >Anyone who doesn't donate after that obviously doesn't want to for whatever
  26. >reason, and continually posting isn't going to help you out.
  27.  
  28. Now, wait a sec... I have only seen him posted this message *ONCE*.  
  29. Yes, he did cross-post it to another newsgroup, but that's because
  30. he wants to let people who don't read "comp.sys.amiga.audio" to hear
  31. about it too.
  32.  
  33. Why are you so upset about this?
  34.  
  35. >Pumpkin Power : s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
  36.  
  37. >-- 
  38.  
  39. Yours Sincerely,
  40. Kelvin
  41.  
  42.                                             ____________________________
  43.  __________________________________________/ Undergraduate, Class of 94 \___ 
  44. /____________________________________________________________\_____/________\
  45. |  Kelvin    /   Internet: Kelvin.Leung@Dartmouth.edu       ({o   o})       |
  46. |   Leung   /       or     abs0@Coos.Dartmouth.edu        <  #  ^  #  >     | 
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  49. |  awful lot, nothing is going to get    |                                  |
  50. |  better.  It's not."                   |  There are always more than one  |
  51. |               -- Dr. Seuss (The Lorax) |  side to any story...            |
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