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- From: Dave Gerecke <dave.gerecke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:39:34 +1100
A friend sent this on to me
I'm in the Army and currently (at the time this anecdote was
submitted) deployed to Kosovo. As the local techie, people usually
come to me with computer questions. After we had been here awhile,
a computer network with Internet access was installed. Being a
net fanatic and desperately missing e-mail, I talked to the system
administrator and got our computers hooked up
After getting everything set up and checked out, I announced to my
company that we could now do e-mail and if anyone had any questions
about setting up an account, they should come see me. There was
one guy who was extremely happy about having access to e-mail, as
communications with the states is difficult to begin with. Well,
he came to ask how to set up an account. I gave him a printed copy
of the procedure.
The next morning I ran into him at the dining tent. He looked very
tired. I sat down with him and asked him about his condition. He
replied, "I set up my e-mail account last night and spent the entire
night doing e-mail." This was understandable. I did the same thing.
Later in the day, I was taking the regular (snail) mail to
the post office. It's routine to check through all the mail to
ensure that proper return addresses and "free mail" was printed
on each envelope. Otherwise, the military postal system wouldn't
mail them. While sorting through them, I came across a stack of
letters without the proper return address. They all had e-mail
addresses as both the return address and the 'send to' address.
My friend had apparently sat up all night hand writing 23 letters of
about five pages each and thinking that by putting e-mail addresses
on the envelope, they would arrive a lot quicker.
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