Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Fw: LCRCnews: Fw: NEW Virus Warnings NOV 97

[Robert Schrader (rms]

At 06:34 AM 11/7/97 -0600, some well-meaning but naive list member wrote:


>Howdy All!
>Just received this note and I thought I would pass it on so nobody gets
>burned

>> > > >> Date:   04/11/97  9:32 AM
>> > > >> 
>> > > >> RE:     NEW Virus Warnings NOV 97
>> > > >> 
>> > > >> Subject: Fwd: FW: NEW VIRUS WARNING (fwd)
>> > > >> 
>> > > >> If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO  NOT  open it!
>> > > >> It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive!


C'mon folks, think about this one for a minute.  There is a difference between
data and executable programs.

E-mail is just data.  It is not a program.  It is not capable of *doing*
anything.

This is logically similar to expecting a cookbook to make dinner for you.  It
is just data.  It does not do anything on it's own.

Your e-mail reader ( such as eudora ) could not execute instructions in an
e-mail
message even if you wanted it to.

It's a hoax.

Robert