Starr
November 27th, 2000, 02:59 PM
AN OBSERVATION ABOUT EMAILS AND THE LIKE.
You can tell what kind of people your friends are by what they forward you.
If your friend sends you a good joke, he is funny. If they send you a virus
warning or a promise of money from Bill Gates, they are gullible. And if they
send you constant poems about what friendship means, tweety birds drawn with
asterisks, and pleas from the cancer foundation, I give them ten years before
they'll be handing out pamphlets in an airport.
I love the forwards that end with "send this to ten people or you will be
killed in your sleep." Nothing says redemption like wishing death on ten of
your closest friends.
The dumbest forwards I have seen are the pleas for kids with cancer. Not to
be insensitive, but even if tracking email were REMOTELY possible, why would
the cancer society donate three cents for every forward? Wouldn't they be the
ones collecting donations?
If you get a computer virus off a disk, I understand that. But I have no
sympathy for people who get viruses via e-mail. The fact that the "I love
you" virus spread so quickly was the saddest thing I had heard in a long
time. Talk about preying on people's insecurities. "Hey Joe, come in here
quick! Not only did my boss send me an e-mail, but he loves me! And he
apparently wants me to download this file..."
[Edited by Starr on November 27th, 2000 at 02:37 PM]
You can tell what kind of people your friends are by what they forward you.
If your friend sends you a good joke, he is funny. If they send you a virus
warning or a promise of money from Bill Gates, they are gullible. And if they
send you constant poems about what friendship means, tweety birds drawn with
asterisks, and pleas from the cancer foundation, I give them ten years before
they'll be handing out pamphlets in an airport.
I love the forwards that end with "send this to ten people or you will be
killed in your sleep." Nothing says redemption like wishing death on ten of
your closest friends.
The dumbest forwards I have seen are the pleas for kids with cancer. Not to
be insensitive, but even if tracking email were REMOTELY possible, why would
the cancer society donate three cents for every forward? Wouldn't they be the
ones collecting donations?
If you get a computer virus off a disk, I understand that. But I have no
sympathy for people who get viruses via e-mail. The fact that the "I love
you" virus spread so quickly was the saddest thing I had heard in a long
time. Talk about preying on people's insecurities. "Hey Joe, come in here
quick! Not only did my boss send me an e-mail, but he loves me! And he
apparently wants me to download this file..."
[Edited by Starr on November 27th, 2000 at 02:37 PM]