Who says John Hoffmann gets all the fun? Peter Popovich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Subject: the first Trojan horse > FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO: Trojan Army Listserv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RE: WARNING!! BEWARE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS! > > Hey Hector, > > This was forwarded to me by Cassandra--it looks legit. Please distribute > to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings. > > Thanks, > > Laocoon > > ****************************** > > WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! > > IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT DOWNLOAD > IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your ENTIRE CITY! > > The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories tall. It > tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be abandoned. > > DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is incompatible > with Trojan programming, including a crowd of heavily armed Greek warriors > that will destroy your army, sack your town, and kill your women and > children. > If you have already received such a gift, DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out > of the city unopened and set fire to it by the beach. > > FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! > > Poseidon > > ****************************** > > FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RE: Greeks bearing gifts > > Laocoon, > > I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is. > I've seen variants on this warning come through on other listservs, > one involving some kind of fruit that was supposed to kill the people > who ate it and one having to do with something called the "Midas Touch." > > Here are a few tipoffs that this is a hoax: > > 1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" business. If it were > really meant as a warning about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post > it to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans? > > 2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway. > > 3) It's signed "from Poseidon." Granted he's had his problems with > Odysseus but he's one of their guys, isn't he? Besides, the lack of > a real header with a detailed address makes me suspicious. > > 4) Technically speaking, there is no way for a horse to overwrite your > entire city. A horse is just an animal, after all. > > Next time you get a message like this, just delete it. I appreciate your > concern, but once you've been around the block a couple times you'll > realize how annoying this kind of stuff is. > > Bye now, > > Hector ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
