From: Bill Ridgway (bill@macwlr.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Subject: a good times parody

Forwarded from an author unknown....
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Subject: Free Money!!!

There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Free Money," DO NOT read
the message. DELETE it immediately, UNPLUG your computer, then BURN IT to
ASHES in a government-approved toxic waste disposal INCINERATOR.

Once a computer is infected, it will be TOO LATE. Your computer will begin
to emit a vile ODOR. Then it will secrete a foul, milky DISCHARGE. Verily,
it shall SCREECH with the tortured, monitor-shattering SCREAM of 1,000
hell-scorched souls, drawing unwanted attention to your cubicle from
co-workers and supervisors alike. After violently ripping itself from the
wall, your computer will punch through your office window as it STREAKS
into the night, HOWLING like a BANSHEE. Once free, it will spend the rest
of its days CRUSHING household PETS and MOCKING the POPE.

Some filthy, disgusting miscreant... some no-good, low-down,
good-for-nothing DIRTY SNAKE, in twisted pursuit of his own sadistic
dreams, is sending this virus across the Net via an e-mail entitled "Free
Money." What is so terrifying about this virus is that you do not even to
have to open the e-mail for it to activate. In fact, you do not even need
to RECEIVE the e-mail. You do not even need to OWN a COMPUTER. "Free Money"
can infect even minor HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES.

How it does this with straight ASCII code is, franky, a matter of some
debate... but BELIEVE YOU US, if this weren't a SERIOUS situation, WE
WOULDN'T BE DISCUSSING IT IN 'ALL CAPS'.

So for the LOVE OF GOD, forward this e-mail to all those you claim to care
about, all those you purport to love. Don't do it later! Do it NOW! Now!
Now! NOW! NOW! NOW!
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