HUMOR ALERT was re: Semi-OT: Basic EMail Package?

[babay at mediaone.net (Brian Bay)]

Hi Folks,

This was posted to to ne.internet.services news group and wanted
to pass it along.

Note: this is intended as humor and shouldn't be taken serious.
Any resemblance between humor and reality is purely coincidental.
:-) feel free to send copies to everyone in your address book.

                                  --Cheers,
                                    Brian

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The following was forwarded to me by a friend who works as a
software 
quality assurance engineer.  As it is relevant to the above
remarks, 
I pass it along without further comment:

  ABCD Note
 
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  Topic:     FYI: Microsoft's Outlook
  Author:    Bruce  
  Date:      11:01 AM Today  
  Content:   Outlook Microsoft's virus distribution software 
             believed to have a serious bug.
 
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             FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS 
             UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

  Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's
AntiVirus 
  Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease
cannot be 
  spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application.  This is
believed to 
  be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a
major  
  virus.  "Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't
spread  
  through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the
least, 
  unexpected," said Dr. Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's
infectious 
  disease unit.

  Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical,
insisting 
  that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has
proven 
  virtually pervious to any virus.  The company, however, will
issue a 
  free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not
vulnerable to 
  foot-and-mouth. 
  
 
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Cheers,
The Old Bear

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