At 01:12 PM 9/13/01 -0700, mike miller wrote:
>Sorry, I have to disagree with my peach tree lawyer friend.  It is not
>better to 'pass along something'.  All we learned from this is that it was a
>hoax.
>
>Panics, depressions [sorry, recessions] personal slander, and really bad
>jokes get going this way.  There are circumstances in which a false warning
>is better than none [look out! a grenade! qualifies] but this isn't one, and
>most situations aren't, IMHO.
>
>Mike [Sacramento, not Fresno]

Your humble servant here was glad to see the EFFORT.  Libel, fraud, and
other ill-conceived but premediated malicious acts differ, in my
opinion.  The gentleman passed along something he believed in good faith to
be perfectly applicable, and did so in a timely manner.
He should be applauded.
And in fact we learned that it was a hoax.  (Did we?  Was it?)  If so, we
learned much more than that.  We learned to carefully examine all that is
put before us.

horace (Ringgold, not Rome)