don't want sympathy for myself sugar. In the past eight years I have made
HUGE mistakes concerning sending posts to various people. I was unaware of
the magnatude of this thing when I first sent it out. Had I realized that it
was world wide, I wouldn't have even bothered. You can ask Victoria. When
she was seriously ill with her health, I thought it was a nice gesture to
send her some humor and non religious uplifting stuff. I was shot down
quickly because her husband didn't want me tying up their computer with such
stuff. It didn't hurt me as much as educate me. And that was almost 8 years
ago. I was given a few viruses that I wanted to let people know about in
the past and again, there were people that literally flamed me telling me to
take themselves off my "list". I'm not slating you, dear. There was a total
of twelve people who responded to me privately about my message to the
people in my address book. Had I not deleted the more vulgar and evil ones
I'd just post there here for you to see. You just asked me to remove you
from my list and I complied with no grousing, whinning or vieing for
sympathy. I'm a 50 year old woman and hope by now that I'm much more mature
and thick skinned to allow the power of someone over me, but there were five
people who tore me up and I didn't feel like I deserved it when all I was
doing was try to notify people of the situation I was myself in. I
appreciate you've forgiven me, but on the other hand, I was just apologizing
to you for not realizing you didn't appreciate a post with your address with
others. I sent it out carbon copy, but can't seem to find the blind carbon
copy ability. I don't need sympathy from my friends here on the newsgroup.
If you noticed, I posted in my message that I wasn't looking for people to
think I was leaving for good, looking for attention, if I wanted attention,
I know how to do it thank you. g

You shoulda seen some of the flame wars towards me when I first came on this
newsgroup. They were incredible. I learned the hard way about alot of
things. A particular person who called themselves Pricilla attacked me quite
effectively once and really riled me up. But I've even learned from the
negative stuff. All I MEANT was that I will NEVER tell people about another
problem concerning viruses, worms or mass mailings regarding my computer
because sometimes I just jump the gun. I've always jumped the gun.

It's kinda like I made sure I told people I wasn't leaving for good until I
got things cleaned up and under control, but the empathy and compassion and
care of some of the gardeners and friends out there still contacted me with
concerns that I was leaving. That's just love and friendship, not looking
for sympathy. I think you can see that I truely care about people and it
ALWAYS gets me in trouble.

My computer's life is getting back to more normal stuff now, and there are
some things in the back of my mind I was going to write about because I've
been inspired these past few days, but it'll hold for now.

That's all I feel that I should say about this, and in the words of Forest
Gump, "That's all I've got to say about that" g

madgardener up on the ridge, back in fairy holler, overlooking a sleepy
English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 where we're
gonna get down to 51o tonight...great sleeping weather.
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
...
The message
from "Louis Ohland using a throwaway address!"
contains these words:


Most likely, a harvester sucked up your address and some hacked site
or spammer or both are using it to misdirect people. It doesn't make you
a bad person, it just means someone else is using your address.

That isn't what happened in this case.

Marylin/madgardener decided it would be helpful to send an
email+attachment called "mass Microsoft fake email messages" to the
occupants of her addressbook, including myself.

To quote from her:

" I thought it was a good thing I had notified those
in my addy book about this thing"

"I'm over the others blaming me for my post, but it's
the absolute last time I let anyone know about a problem in the future."

M has apologised for sending her email and I accept that. Imho it's a
worse error of her judgement to publically slate its recipients, while
playing to the gallery for sympathy for herself.

Janet.