> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Fitzpatrick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 20 February 2001 15:07
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary
>
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> Comparing getting an email to putting petrol in a car is a awful
> analogy...
> People *know* petrol is flammable (even if they just watch bad Hollywood
> films)... and there are signs for stoopid people saying "no naked flames,
> switch off engine". You don't see the equivalent in mail software, no
> prominent signs saying "no clicking, switch on file extensions"...
>
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ERM, You'd be surprised!, a local cabbie here got arrested and
jailed for keeping a couple
of hundred of gallons of petrol in his garage during the fuel crisis
here in Old Blighty last year
A major part of his defence centered on the fact, that he did not
know that petrol was flammable!
In summary, There are a Hell of a lot of Idiotically stupid people
out there.
(and an unfeasably large number are of the American variety ;¬)
Dean
