[MineralMan]

"Effectively they have infected the email server with something that has the same effect as a virus without having to write the code.
"

Yup. Personally, I think the thread should have been ZOTted immediately. I just got done explaining to my 7-year-old mother about these things. She forwarded this ancient message to me, and was surprised to hear that someone would forward something to her that wasn't true. Feh!

I probably get about ten of these hoax email forwards a day, and they always come from someone I know, which means I take the time to open the email. It's a sort of spam that is really a time-waster.

[MineralMan]

That should be 78-year-old mother. -grin-