minstrel: Re: E-mail hoaxes

[Claudia Chaves]

Peace be with you, m'lady Josceline and all Minstrels' List members.

I'm posting this in the list and not privatelly for a reason: lets bury the
issue.

Thank you for your kind words, most talented minstrels, bards and
storytellers. They have warmed my heart.  This incident served me well: I'll
be much more savvy in the future and line up with those who try to prevent
those annoying messages of getting spread and infesting the Net. As for the
discourteous manner I've been chastised by the list administrator... well,
I've received so many messages of encouragement and ammends, I now believe
he did me a great service in welcoming me to the Minstrels' List.  Among the
messages, m'lord Edwin Hewitt posted lyrics for a jest song I hope will
receive a tune soon and be sung in the four corners of the Knowne World:
Glaura's Naïveté Song.  He was a real champion, a gentleman and the epitome
of a knight, running to the aid of a lady in distress and fighting for her
with the only weapon mightier than any sword: the pen.  I don't care whether
he's been officially knighted or not.  That piece of amusing poetry has made
him a knight in my heart and a friend.
Now, let it be over and done with.  In my country, we say... let me try to
translate it into English... "To make mistakes is a human feature.  To make
the same mistakes over and over again is a stupid feature."  This is true
and good advice indeed.  I've made a mistake; I'm human.  I'll try not to be
stupid in the future.

In friendship,

Glaura Branca Pereyra de Santa Maria

The honor is to serve.
-----Mensagem original-----
De: Linda Olson <>
Para: cchaves at openlink.com.br <cchaves at openlink.com.br>
Data: Quarta-feira, 2 de Junho de 1999 09:42
Assunto: E-mail hoaxes


>Good Lady Glaura:
>
>I'm probably not the only person to write this, but you should not feel bad
>about mistakenly posting the "chain letter" hoax to the list.  The
>individual who corrected you should have done so with more courtesy. It is
a
>very common mistake, and has happened with every single e-mail list I
>subscribe to numerous times. That's probably why some of the internet
>veterans get impatient with new people who make the same mistake. They seem
>to forget that no one is born with this knowledge.
>
>In case no one explained further, these kind of "chain letter" hoaxes are
>created by mischief makers who want to clog large e-mail systems with
>hundreds of large messages. They get some kind of satisfaction out of
>slowing down the net for everyone else. That is why so many e-mail lists
>have a "no chain letters" rule; posting them to large lists is a very
>efficient way of creating many copies and helping the creators do their
>mischief.
>
>Other types of chain letters you will see now that you are on the net
>include various computer virus warnings (these are complicated by the fact
>that a few of them are true; you can check out MacAfee's home page for the
>true story on any of these virus messages); all kinds of e-mail petitions
>supporting worthy causes (funding for public broadcasting in the U.S.,
human
>rights for women in Afghanistan, etc. -- the problem is that e-mail
>petitions are pretty much useless, since there is no way to verify the
>"signatures" or prevent duplicate "signatures" if the petition is
circulated
>as a chain letter).
>
>Welcome to the wonderful world wide web. And welcome to the SCA. Please be
>patient when someone is occasionally rude on-line, and try not to take it
>personally. Remember that many of us in the SCA were unpopular kids in high
>school, so our social skills are still improving. And of course, the kids
>with the poorest social skills were often the first ones with computers.
>
>Yours in service,
>Lady Josceline Levesque (Linda Olson)
>Barony of Jararvellir (Madison, Wisconsin)
>Principality of Northshield
>Kingdom of the Middle
>
>
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