Meet the sheepish stars of the World Wide Web whose stories will make
your toes curl. There is the story ofthe man who emailed a woman he met
at a party, telling her, "This is the part where I throw caution to the
wind . . . Your smile is the freshest of my special memories," and then
sat back in horror as his email was circulated round the world; or the
government spin doctor who emailed colleagues on September 11, 2001
advising them that it was "a good day to bury bad news" after the World
Trade Center had been attacked, but before the Twin Towers themselves
collapsed; the ex-employee who thought he'd gotten revenge by wrecking
his former company's computer system with a bombardment of emails, but
was discovered and ended up in court; the Pentagon officer who
accidentally included a schoolgirl on an email list that discussed
top-secret matters; and the marketing man who wrote an email mocking his
employer and sent the message straight to his boss."