Re: virus alert!! ***NO IT'S NOT, DO NOT FORWARD!!!***

["Adam Lindsay" <adam@mindex.com>]

As a Network Admin of an ISP, we get this problem all the time. People think
that there computers will get sick and turn into some useless doorstop. It
is very easy to poke fun, mock or blow up at them.

But we all must remember one thing. No matter how long you have been on the
internet, or using computers, you too were a newbie. All of us were.

experience:
    INET     7 1/2years
    VW        7 months

And thats why I am on this list. =}

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Adam Lindsay
Mindex Technologies Inc.
adam@mindex.com

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Karp, Steve <KarpS@1st-annapolis.com>
    To: 'jettaglx@igtc.com' <jettaglx@igtc.com>
    Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 7:23 AM
    Subject: RE: virus alert!! ***NO IT'S NOT, DO NOT FORWARD!!!***


    Hey Khan-

    Maybe some of us "newbies" actually have lives and don't sit around on
the Internet 23 hours a day ... Your response to Tim shows who truly has a
bad attitude

    Steve

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Khan M. Klatt [SMTP:kmk@pacificrim.net]
        Sent:   Friday, September 11, 1998 12:08 AM
        To:     jettaglx@igtc.com
        Subject:        Re: virus alert!! ***NO IT'S NOT, DO NOT
FORWARD!!!***

        At 7:52 PM -0700 9/10/98, Tim Kling wrote:
        >To put it timidly,
        >1.  I did not know that posting one message that I THOUGHT would be
        >informative to other vw freaks was such a horrible thing.
        >
        >2.  Maybe most GLX owners are more computer literate (some more
anal about
        >it) than us measly 16valvers.
        >
        >3.  If you don't want to YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ EVERY POST.  I
figured
        >that if anyone thought necessary to read it, they could do so.
        >
        >4.  I am sorry for wasting your important time (probably while hard
at work).
        >
        >whatever

        Tim, that was a pretty LAME apology, I'll address each of your
points one
        at a time.

        1. YOU THOUGHT WRONG. Think before you think again. Since you were
wrong,
        you shouldn't be surprised that other vw freaks would point out it
was
        wrong.

        2. I have no evidence that shows that GLX owners are more or less
computer
        savvy than 16 valvers. We just have newer cars.

        3. This has *NOTHING* to do with reading every post, it has to do
with the
        fact that you are PERPETUATING the equivalent of a VIRUS. Every
Internet
        expert you speak to will confirm that Internet hoaxes are a plague
on the
        Internet, and you were perpetuating it. Even if *I* don't read the
post,
        someone else might, and might forward the message on. And of NOONE
is going
        to read the post, then I'm right again, you shouldn't have posted it
to
        this list.

        4. This attitude sucks, and you should be sorry you made yourself
out to be
        a fool for the following reasons:
        a.) You believed it, hook line and sinker, when it was a LIE.
        b.) You posted it telling everyone to send it on "just in case",
        essentially trying to perpetuate the problem
        c.) Your "apology" is half-assed, instead of saying, "GEEZ, I'm
sorry, it
        won't happen again!!! I'll let the fool who sent it to me know not
to send
        it on any further", you say in a sarcastic tone, "sorry for wasting
your
        important time".



        In short, these hoaxes are the great "newbie detectors" on the
Internet.
        You've been exposed as a newbie, now learn your lesson, apologize,
and get
        over it. You probably won't make the same mistake again. Now sit
back, and
        wait for the next fool to send one of these, and you can pounce on
him like
        I just did. :)

        -Khan

        --
        Khan Klatt
        1997 VW Jetta GLX, Emerald Green
         --> Biber Beige Leather               --> All-weather Package

         --> Bilstein HD Shocks & Struts         --> Neuspeed SofSport
Springs
         --> Mintex Redbox Brake Pads          --> K&N Air Filter
         --> Clarion CD Changer (Trunk-mounted) --> Locking Gas Door
         --> Velcro-mounted CD Storage in Trunk --> AirCondition Mod