Careful what you email...

Bard

You may have heard the story of Claire Swire, an unfortunate young lady working in a city law firm in the UK. She emailed two jokes to office colleagues, including her boyfriend. These were followed up with a message just to her boyfriend which contained... well... fairly explicit comments to say the least...

He decided then to forward this on to six of his friends with the note "Now thats a nice compliment from a lass, isn't it?"... one of the six recipients forwarded the message on further and it quickly found it's way into other law firms. A week later, over TEN MILLION people are thought to have read the message including users from as far afield as Japan.

As well as circulating by email, the subject became the topic of many a newsgroup and mailing list discussion. Even technology, writing and marketing lists all carried messages with the subject: "Who is Claire Swire?" - it just goes to show - you never know who's going to end up reading your emails!!!

Oh ... and if you really want to see, for yourself:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Claire+Swire&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&site=groups

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Bard

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Blitzkrieger

****ing hell that's embarassing. I try never to put anything remotly embarassing in emails just because they get forwarded to death. About two years ago there I zipped a small game and emailed it to my brother. He emailed it to some people in his company who evidently mailed it to more people, etc. I eventually got it sent to my college account a year later. The amount of addresses on the list was amazing. Especially all the extensions .to, .edu, .nl, .co.uk, .ie, .com, .net, .org, and loads more I can't remember. At the bottom of it all was my comment "Get back to work ya lazy *******"

What I'd like to know is what ******* in a .org is spending all day playing games

Shiminay

She resigned before she got sacked!!!

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All the best,

Dav
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Hobbes

Checked Snopes. It's true.

http://www.snopes2.com/sex/tattled/swire.htm

Baz_

its not that bad, id love a girl like that.

Bard

*grin*

... and now PlayboyTV want her

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Shiminay

I actually got that email while in ebeon - sent it to as many people who I had address for. It's the stuff of legends!

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All the best,

Dav
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Lenny

things like that get you sacked from your job