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From: BA Cadets <cadets@clara.net>
Subject: Scamming the BBC
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Dear All,
      All this business of trying to scam the BBC into having David Beckham has
a very familiar ring to me. While I was at Uni a few years ago, a similar scheme
was put in place to try to vote Justin Fashanu (the first openly gay and now
sadly deceased footballer) in as BBC sports personality of the year. Rumour
later circulated that the BBC had realised that something was afoot when the
Email votes for Justin were more than the combined total of votes for anyone
else, and stopped accepting entries for him. 
      Despite some of the stuff that they broadcast, the BBC are not complete
idiots and will no doubt realise that the same thing is happening again and take
similar action. My advice has to be, save yours and your friends bandwidth and
lets not bother with playing silly Email games that have annoyed many of us
Britdisc subscribers before. 
      Just my two pence worth.
      Ta.
      
      Ian, a.k.a. Jazzman
      NightFever