Potential E-mail Misuse
It's wise to remember how easily
the wonderful technology of e-mail can be misused, sometimes
unintentionally, with serious consequences.
Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets
of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip
and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his
hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail.
Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail
address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately, he
missed one letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly
preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When
the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor,
let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the
sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest wife: Just checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival
tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here!
Email: aaronsteinmetz@yahoo.com
