full-disclosure - Viral hoax

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From: erc at pobox.com (Ed Carp)
Subject: Viral hoax

On Sun, 18 May 2003, [iso-8859-2] Daniel Do?ekal 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.