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To: Fridrik Skulason who wrote (1513)1/16/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1894
 
Having your email client open Word automatically is just asking for huge heaping gobs of trouble in the family size package. That's a very silly way to configure it, and I'm sure anybody who learns this one the hard way won't likely forget.

Nonetheless, you are correct that it could happen that way. I suppose you'll find some occurances of this config as 'puters get more and more mainstream, falling into the hands of people with strengths other than computer knowledge.

-MrB