The REALL News - August 1999

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font size="2"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank"><i><img alt="Get Acrobat Reader (712 bytes)" border="0" src="../../../images/logos/getacrobat.gif" align="right" width="88" height="31"></i></a><a href="reall-news-v07-n08.pdf" target="_top">Also available as an Acrobat PDF file</a> (8 pages, 900K file)<br> <i>You can download this issue as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. You will need the free <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html" target="_blank">Acrobat Reader software</a>, available from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe's web site</a>, to view it.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Volume 7<br> Number 8</b></td> <td><h1 align="center">The REALL News</h1> <i><p align="center">"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense."<br> -- James Randi<br> <br> </i></td> <td align="right" valign="top"><b>August 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="psychic-junk-mail-hell.html">Psychic Junk-Mail Hell</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="letter-to-the-editor.html">Letter to the Editor</a></li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a>, by David Bloomberg<br> <br> </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Wally Hartshorn</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <h1 align="center">Psychic Junk-Mail Hell</h1> <p align="center"><b>by David Bloomberg</b></p> <p>I sometimes don’t check REALL’s post office box as often as I perhaps should. But when I went to retrieve our mail in the middle of July, after about three weeks of not checking, the box was filled with all sorts of junk mail making fantastic claims (twelve letters or postcards in all). I (or rather, somebody named "Leo Bloomberg") had been put on a mailing list for believers in psychic power.<a href="psychic-junk-mail-hell.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" width="33" height="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div>  </body>