In a message dated 11/27/2001 1:39:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, MARTIN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > The next time you want to defame somebody, please do some investigation > first. > I dont think there was any intent to defame anyone. No, I was not the one who wrote about any viruses till today. Please, let's be kind to each other. Many people are shy and easily discouraged from participating in the Digests. I learned a lesson about being diplomatic the hard way. I lost a valued relative and fount of information. They had written on a Digest about a bogus virus. Before I realized who had written the message, I wrote back and said that I was sick to death of people who ran around yelling, "the sky is falling" without looking out the window, i.e. checking the hoax encyclopedia, etc. They wrote back and said they would never again warn anyone about a virus no matter if we all had our CP's ruined. The person has never again posted a message to that Digest or any other that I have found; and has never answered any of my apologies. Can you blame them? Here is to a kind and gentle Digest and friendly Holiday Season to all. Thomas W. Horton Glen Mills, PA Twwoodwork@aol.com