Hey Hector, This was forwarded to me by Cassandra
-- it looks legit. Please distribute to Priam,
Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.

                             Thanks, Laocoon


             WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE
WOODEN HORSE DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is
EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your
ENTIRE CITY! The "gift" is disguised as a large
wooden horse about two stories tall. It tends to
show up outside the city gates and appears to be
abandoned. DO NOT let it through the gates!
It contains hardware that is incompatible with
Trojan programming, including a crowd of heavily
armed Greek warriors that will destroy your army,
sack your town, and kill your women and children.
If you have already received such a gift, DO NOT
OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened
and set fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

                                    Poseidon


FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
TO:   laocoon@doomgloom.edu
RE:   Greeks bearing gifts

Laocoon, I hate to break to you, but this is one
of the oldest hoaxes there is. I've seen variants
on this warning come through on other listservs,
one involving some kind of fruit that was supposed
to kill the people who ate it and one having to do
with something called the "Midas Touch." Here are
a few tipoffs that this is a hoax:
(1) This "Forward this message to everyone you
know" crap. If it were really meant as a warning
about the Greek army, why tell anyone to post it
to the Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
(2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway.
(3) It's signed "from Poseidon." Granted he's had
his problems with Odysseus but he's one of their
guys, isn't he? Besides, the lack of a real header
with a detailed address makes me suspicious.
(4) Technically speaking, there is no way for a
horse to overwrite your entire city. A horse is
just an animal, after all.

Next time you get a message like this, just delete
it. I appreciate your concern, but once you've
been around the block a couple times you'll
realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.

                             Bye now, Hector

-- Indsendt af Peter B. Juul

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