No need to date yourself, the underscore in your name gives it away;)
Michel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick_Roberts@oxy.com [mailto:Dick_Roberts@oxy.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:29 PM
> To: seaint@seaint.org
> Subject: RE: PLEASE READ NOW - Real virus
>
>
> Come on Bill - PC"s have been around since 82 and I don't think that
> argument holds water any more. I'm 69 and have no trouble getting around
> the internet, AutoCad, Microstation, Excel , Word, etc.
>
> Richard Roberts
> dick_roberts@oxy.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Polhemus [mailto:bill@polhemus.cc]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:48 PM
> To: seaint@seaint.org
> Subject: Re: PLEASE READ NOW - Real virus
>
> Scott Maxwell wrote:
> > 99 times out of 100, when I get a message "warning" everyone, a quick
> Google search will show it for the hoax that it is.
> >
> I'll bet if research were done, it would show that virtually every one
> of the emails passed on regarding this hoax, comes from someone aged 50
> or older!
>
> Us oldsters will never feel as comfortable with the online world as
> those who grew up with it as a reality. To many of us, it still seems
> like something rather daunting and scary.
>
> About ten years ago the consulting firm that I worked for was one of the
>
> few that had not yet moved to have email, or even a web-page. True, the
> 'net was still something of a novelty then, but most of our competitors
> had their "home pages" up.
>
> The reason our company didn't is that the company president, who was
> around 60 at that time, had heard from another person at the country
> club that "hackers could get into your bank account and clean you out!"
> We tried to explain to him that having access to the internet did NOT
> mean that anyone in the world who wanted to would then be able to get
> into your internal computer files for accounting, banking, etc. We tried
>
> to explain that none of those systems were accessible, but "a friend at
> the country club" had told him, and that was that!
>
> The company finally did get a domain name, email, etc., but they simply
> didn't bother to tell the President (who spent a lot of time at the
> country club anyway)!
>
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