From Jaime Allen
by e-mail
Your recently mentioned “viruses”—supposedly spread by e-mails, but in
fact by the users who read them—are by no means a new phenomenon
(Letters, 5 April, pp 55 and
Feedback, same issue). Chain Letters and “numbers games” have
been abusing people’s goodwill/paranoia to reproduce and spread for years. This
shows it is possible to send a “virus” via the Royal Mail. No letterbox is
safe.
