Subject: HOAX! This is a hoax! (Was Re: URGENT WARNING - VIRUSES)
From: Richard Lawson
Date: 8/27/1997, 6:46 PM
To: steven@athenet.net
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com

For the love of God, man:

Never, ever forward things like this on.

They are hoaxes, plain and simple.  You *cannot* get a virus by reading
an email message.

You're fortunate Tybalt is not here; you would have been permanently
banned from the ML for putting this up.

I'm not so stern.  :)

But please.  Stop the chain letters before they get too far.  Letters
like this ply on the fears of people unfamiliar with the internet and
believe them to be true.  In fact, messages like this just clog up
mailboxes and do nothing productive.

Just so you know.  I know your intentions were good and that you were
trying to be helpful.

-- -Richard sterman@sprynet.com |-------------------------------------------------------| | All of my fanfics can be found on my fanfic web page: | | http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/sterman/fanfic.htm | |-------------------------------------------------------|