It's wise to remember how easily e-mail 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.
Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his
note was directed instead to an elderly woman 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.