General advice:

Send an apology and/or a detailed cover letter with any document that
you email as an attachment.

Never open an unsolicited, unexpected, or cryptic attachment. Make no
exceptions to this rule.

Delete all unsolicited email bearing an attachment unless the email
is accompanied by an adequate cover letter. The cover letter should
note the software that generated the attachment (e.g., Microsoft Word
2001 for Macintosh).The cover letter should explain why your
information must be sent and received as an attachment. The cover
letter typically sent with any FAX is less important than the cover
letter sent with any attachment.

An application of this advice:

These principles shape our editorial policy for email submissions. If
you wish to publish some writing in the SHAR,and I hope everyone
shares this wish, then cut and paste your text into an email and send
that email to me or Scott.

If you must attach the document, then you should have the courtesy to
submit a cover letter that fully explains the nature of the
attachment. This cover letter should include the name of the software
program that created this attachment. It would also be helpful if the
cover letter indicates that the enclosed attachment is being sent for
consideration for publication in a future issue of the SHAR.
Otherwise, if you send an attachment with no explanation of the
nature and purpose of the attachment, and/or no apology for being
incapable of cutting-and-pasting your text into an email, then you
can assume that we will delete the attachment unopened.

This virus is successful because it generates sham cover letters with
cryptic content such as, "I send you this file for your advice.
-Mary"  Everyone should delete such emails as soon as they receive
them. Mary will send it again if the attachment was important, and
the next time she'll probably explain why she is sending this to you
in the first place.

Cheers,
Jon

>--- Cristie Rollins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>  I'm confused. How is this relevant to the ATHG?
>
>
>      The message has a virus attatched to it.  Don't
>open it!!!!!
>
>Leslie King
>
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