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RE: Viral hoax


From: Ed Carp <erc () pobox com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 08:40:48 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 18 May 2003, [iso-8859-2] Daniel Doèekal wrote:

This one is many years old and still keeps alive. Hard to believe how
that's possible.

Because people are STUPID.  They don't bother to check stuff out before 
the mindlessly forward it to all their friends, "just in case", or forward 
it to a security list.

And it's all so easy ... snopes.com is your friend.  But, it's easier to 
forward scary-sounding email than it is to check it out.  OK, so I was 
wrong - people are STUPID *and* lazy.

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