Klarinet Archive - Posting 000120.txt from 2003/09

From: Anna Benassi <acb@-----.is>
Subj: [kl] the hoax
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:10:30 -0400

Tim Roberts wrote:

"If you did delete this perfectly innocent file, I want you to be
embarrassed by
your gullibility. Why would it occur to someone to delete an
operating system
file based on advice in a bulk e-mail originally written by someone
they do not
know? If you received an anonymous message on your answering machine
telling
you that the cylindrical object with a thick wire in your car's engine
was
irradiating your children, with instructions on how to remove it,
would you do
so?"

Touché. I am embarrassed by my gullibility, Tim. I sit corrected and
humbled (I hope), and if my idiocy has provided some entertainment for
you list members, well, that's something salvaged. I simply hope that
no one else was taken in.

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh
at them in our turn?"
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Best to all,
Anna

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