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Subject: Re: List of participants for WCCC

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 17:04:11 05/14/04

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On May 14, 2004 at 18:41:21, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On May 14, 2004 at 12:16:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2004 at 20:17:42, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>Not anyone can play. Only people who have several thousand dollars and two weeks
>>>to burn can play. I don't know many people in that situation, or at least if
>>>they are in that situation and participated, the locks would be changed when
>>>they returned home from the trip :)
>>
>>FYI, travel costs and hardware are sponsored by the organisation.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>That's great news! I thought they were only offering $300 assistance, which was
>woefully inadequate. For instance, I just checked the air fare for a round trip
>ticket from Dallas to Tel Aviv, departing on July 3rd and returning on July
>13th, and it ranges from $1300 - $4800. If I was only given $300 in assistance,
>I would have spent at least $1000 out of my own pocket (which I don't have) and
>I'd still be sleeping on the street and fasting for 10 days.

I'm sure Omid could find you a dark corner to sleep in and some leftover pizza
:)

anthony



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