Re: HaHaHa problem

[Judy Meadows <psj000@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

At 10:20 AM 2/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I got it a couple of weeks ago and I DEFINITELY did not open the
>attachement.

Dear Sharon and Other LM_Netters:

I asked my home ISP about Sharon's situation and I thought his reply was
interesting.  I will pass it along to you F.Y.I

>She may be running an e-mail client that automatically opens attachments.
>Have her check that possibility.  Outlook Express has a setting for
>"preview pane", which as far as I can tell only opens pictures and will
>not open a .exe file, but some versions of this message contain a .scr
>extension, and that might open with preview.
>
>Out of several thousand, make that several tens of thousands of these
>stupid messages that our customers have received, we've had less than 10
>claim they didn't open the attachment, and of those, at least half have
>discovered that their kids/spouse/parents DID in fact open it afterall,
>and of the remainder, only a couple swear they didn't touch it.
>
>Yes, the best thing is to delete it, but you have to select it to delete
>it, and if your e-mail program automatically opens attachments when you
>select the message, it would already be too late.  I am not sure if Eudora
>would have such an option, and I suspect being from a school that there's
>a good possibility that she may well be using Eudora.  Let me know if I
>can help.
>


__________________________
Judy L. Meadows
K-12 Librarian
Verona R-7 School District
101 E. Ella Street
Verona, Missouri  65769
psj000@mail.connect.more.net

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