As you are receiving my note by e-mail, its wise to remember how 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 preachers 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:

DEAREST WIFE: JUST GOT CHECKED IN. EVERYTHING PREPARED FOR YOUR ARRIVAL
TOMORROW.

P.S. SURE IS HOT DOWN HERE