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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Our Sincerest Apologies!
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 05:33:35 -1000


Thank you kindly.

Yes, some of those Ph.D. candidates are dangerous characters. They tend to
act first and think later.

An interesting and instructive morality tale. William Bennett should put it
in his next book.

Cheers and you did exactly the Right Thing, Spencer Hines
--

"Well, that's what I mean. You know, if all the people who are named
...deny it....That's all, I mean, I expect them to come looking into it and
interview you and everything, uh, but I just think that if everybody's on
record denying it you've got no problem.....I wonder if I'm going to be
blown out of the water with this. I don't see how they can...if they don't,
if they don't have pictures."

Governor Bill Clinton --- Telephonic Advice to Gennifer Flowers [1991]

The GBs wrote in message <>...
>To All Who Received The Message About"VERY DANGEROUS e-mail virus"
>
>My wife and I returned from a trip out of town, during the Super Bowl
>festivities, here in San Diego. My sister-in-law house-sat while we were
>away. I had, inocently, asked her to check our e-mail while she was
>here, and file away things I was expecting, for our geneological
>research. I didn't want to un-subscribe, through the regular channels,
>since we now subscribe to about 30 different postings and mailing lists.
>
>To make a long story short, she is an MBA with a BA in Computer Science,
>and a PHD candidate. She thinks that anyone who uses a computer, for
>whatever reasons, should, at least have a Doctorate or,
>as she puts it,"go back to using a pencil". We had no idea that she
>would have so maliciously expressed her personal opinion on our computer
>using our e-mail address.
>
>She, evidently, deleted most of the responses to her tirade, so we
>couldn't figure why we wern't receiving as many postings from some
>of the lists. Well, we finaly found out why, thanks to the efficiency of
>the internet e-mail system. One of the addresses was eroneous, so
>we got a returned mail message. Boy! were we shocked. In addition we
>received numerous messages really chewing us out for what "we" did.
>
>We want to express our sincerest apologies to anyone who received that
>message. We've yet to figure out what damage was done in terms of
>lists we've been kicked off of, fellow researchers who have deleted us
>from their mailing lists, and who knows what else! So far we've been
>able to do a lot to correct the situation via the phone and snail-mail
>but we are afraid that some of the damage is beyond repair.
>
>We hope this will help to correct the situation some more.
>
>Sincerely.....Gary & Gail

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