E
MAIL .......easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes
unintentionally,
with serious consequences. Consider the case of the Illinois man who left
the
snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife
was on a business trip
and
was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his
hotel, he decided
to
send his wife a quick e-mail. Unable to find the scrap of paper on
which he had written
her
e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory. Unfortunately,
he missed
one
letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife,
whose husband
had
passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked
her e-mail, she took
one
look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in
a dead faint.
At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
