Keep in mind that many of today's viruses make it their main
mission to invade an infected users address book and mail itself
to all the addresses in it.
It is vary rare indeed for a single person to manually pick and
choose specific addresses to send a virus too.

Daine Pearson
Natural Light & Sound
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rev Clyde Shideler [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:05
> Subject: A Warning to my friends
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have spent many hours trying to decide whether to
> write this letter or
> not.  This warning will not apply to all and will
> depend a lot on where you
> are and what you do.
>
> I hvae discussed this with a few close friends and
> have found they have
> been having similar occurances. It appears that there
> are some people who
> have a determined agenda to "eliminate" disabled
> advocates, one way or
> another.  I have personally experienced some of these
> activities myself.
>
> First, There is someone or more than  one person who
> is sending out viruses
> to advocates.  Both my old and new computers have been
> hit by these folks
> and I continue have several "attempts" each week.  I
> have a good friend who
> was hit and her computer has been down for weeks and
> will likely stay down
> since it seems it can't be fixed.  I believe there is
> a "lurker" on the
> list who gets addresses and names from the lists.
>
> Secondly,  There are those who attempt to discredit
> us.  They spread all
> sorts of "stories", lies, etc.  Their big goal seems
> to be to discredit
> disability rights/ADA altogether.
>
> Physical assault and similar violence with an aim to
> permanently keep us
> out of advocacy.  This is especially bad in some
> places because the police
> or other law enforcement people will take no action to
> protect us. Sorry to
> say, but Police do discriminate against PWD.
>
> I did not want to go into too much detail for fear of
> giving out "ideas" to
> the wrong people.  With what I have learned about
> "some lurkers" it is
> important not to make things worse.  I hope this will
> be of help
>
>  and remember the Motto of SD ADAPT -Go over, go
> under, go around or go
> thru, BUT NEVER GIVE UP.
>
> Pete
>