On Wednesday 10 July 2002 06:32 am, Robert Bushman wrote:
> I hate to be the ogre that would impune the
> honor of diabetic children, but can anyone
> validate this? The text doesn't sound like
> a child, it sounds like an Asian spam-list
> troll. The site looks like it was put together
> in about 3 hours, and has no pictures of any
> children or any facility (foundations
> love having a picture of their site on
> the front page).
It is good to be skeptical, but this seems authentic. First of all, he
never claimed to be a child. Second, the web site lists phone numbers
(which is a good sign) and is registered to "Dave Okubo
(
karlrhs@attbi.com)" with a billing address in Utah.
> Suppose it is real - as Dennis notes, there
> is no way AT&T would shut them down for
> wanting to use a password. AT&T isn't stupid,
> they know that shutting down 900 diabetic
> kids wouldn't play in the media without
> a damned good cause.
This doesn't make sense to me, either.
> What USian calls the position "web master"?
I do, but I don't know any better. I think all the "webmaster@" addresses
simply stuck in my mind. :-P
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