From: deuman04@comcast.net   
      
   This post may contain a virus   
      
   Law   
      
               I have a question about the USA Law, regarding Internet   
   Etiquette and Sabotage.   
      
               My first question pertains to first-time computer-users.   
   Previously, I noticed a notice regarding Internet Etiquette.  Of course, I'm   
   not going to admit to anything that I may have done, if I violated any   
   Internet Etiquette rules.  It sickens me to think that I may have violated   
   Internet Etiquette unintentionally by purchasing a 2003 Dell laptop computer   
   that contained an automatic virus catcher and flawed hard drive.   
      
               What did I just say?   
      
               My Dell laptop computer acquires a virus every time I worked   
   hard to remove the virus, once I thought that I might have one.  My friends   
   and family never complained about my sending them a virus.  They would   
   complain about their computer, acting up.  A few would say that they finally   
   discovered a virus, and a few would state that they had a crappy computer   
   and just didn't use it very much.  I did get a few complains from strangers   
   that turned me in.  The Internet Abuse complains were forward to AT&T.  My   
   Internet provider AT&T placed a number for each abuse warning and emailed me   
   the abuse number.  I called AT&T.  They answered with a recording that   
   required $18 to be placed on my credit card in order to listen to one abuse   
   notice.  If you think that I had a bunch of them, you are right!  Of course,   
   I'm going to blame it on AT&T.  I feel that AT&T should have informed me   
   that every time I tried to access the Internet, they would be furnishing me   
   with a Virus/Worm/High Alert Spyware!  True, I don't feel badly about giving   
   a virus to the long-time dwellers of this newsgroup.  I feel bad for my   
   friends.  The only time they got a break was when my hard-drive broke!  On   
   September 16, 2005, I purchased a new computer.  It took me 4 hours to   
   access the Internet, and then another 4 hours to discover that my factor   
   installed Norton Anti-virus protection has expired!   
      
               I'm going to think about one law at a time, as I wait for the   
   store to open.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)