axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW
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Hall, a 20-year-old college student in Denver, decided in March to spend a weekend in nearby Boulder with another woman. He turned to his cell phone for help, sending out a text message to hundreds of other cell-phone users in an "alibi and excuse club," a network of 3,400 strangers who help each other skip work, get out of dates or give a loved one the slip.
Assistance came instantly. One of the club members, on receiving Hall's message, agreed to call the girlfriend. He pretended to be the soccer coach from the University of Colorado at Boulder and said Hall was needed in town for a tryout.
"It worked out pretty good," said Hall, who signed up for the network on www.sms.ac , a Web site that offers access to hundreds of mobile chat rooms.
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