Hoax E-Mails
An interesting offshoot of e-mail viruses is the phenomenon of e-mail hoaxes. If you’ve had an Internet e-mail address for more than a couple of months, you’ve probably received at least one of these—the Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe sent to you because someone was charged $250, the “famous” commencement speech by Kurt Vonnegut, and the young dying boy whose last wish was to make it into the record books by receiving the most get well cards ever. These are the most famous of the e-mail hoaxes, though many others exist.
E-mail hoaxes are mostly a nuisance, but they do cost everyone, not only in the time wasted by receiving and reading the e-mails, but also in the Internet bandwidth and server processing time they take up. E-mail hoaxes ...
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