Re: OT: E. Royal

From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>



judyhunt1@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I just have to comment about this incident.  I have known Ernie and his wife,
> Debbie, for several years and just saw them this past weekend at the Region 7
> meeting.  Ernie took a lot of good-natured teasing about the "worm" episode
> with such grace! I can't imagine anyone being unforgiving about something
> that was done inadvertently.  It is a shame Ernie felt like he had to leave
> iris-talk because of this.  John, would it be all right for us to ask Ernie
> to come back?

I have already (sometime last week) told Earnie that it was ok to come
back on the list. In fact he did not take himself off, I bounced him as
soon as I heard about the worm. Now, lest you all start jumping down my
throat for overreacting, I did it because I did not understand what was
going on and wanted to protect the list from further invasion.

At any rate I was wrong on two counts.

First, Earnie was an innocent victim in this case (except for not having
up-to-date virus detection software), and for clicking on that dratted attachment.

Secondly: I momentarily forgot that I had set iris-talk to no
attachments, so it didn't really matter. The Virus was automatically
stripped off the message sent to iris-talk. That is not the case for
iris-photos however. That list is set up specifically for attachments
and I had to ask our archivist (at Mallorn.com) to go in the archives
and delete the message. The Onelist archives never contain attachments
so they are not a potential re-infection source.

At any rate, when I had this all figured out, I emailed Earnie explained
what had happened and invited him to return to iris-talk. To my
knowledge he has not returned, so tonight when I get home I will
re-subscribe him myself!

John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.
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