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I had email just now, with the subject line "Weeeeee!", from someone I have, by choice, not spoken to in quite some time, and who no longer lives in New York.
With an attachment. Right, sure. This person, whatever zir other sins, was and presumably still is moderately clueful about computers (if not about how to discuss them with people).
I was completely unsurprised to see that the attachment was labeled "Norton AntiVirus Deleted." Needless to say, I did not open it.
The distant sadness is that I was relieved, rather than annoyed, that this was a virus that had both of our addresses in its address book, rather than an actual (and presumably cheerful) message from the person in question.
With an attachment. Right, sure. This person, whatever zir other sins, was and presumably still is moderately clueful about computers (if not about how to discuss them with people).
I was completely unsurprised to see that the attachment was labeled "Norton AntiVirus Deleted." Needless to say, I did not open it.
The distant sadness is that I was relieved, rather than annoyed, that this was a virus that had both of our addresses in its address book, rather than an actual (and presumably cheerful) message from the person in question.
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There are a few people about whom I'd feel similarly.
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I recently informed most of my correspondents that, due to increasing virus hassles, I'm filtering *all* e-mail with attachments straight into the bit bucket.
This has caused a handful of people to stop writing to me at all because they can't figure out how to configure their mail software to send anything *but* attachments.
If I were a kinder person, I probably would have tried to walk them through the process.
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