I'm passing on an email that originated from Tom Dice and which was forwarded to me from a chipper friend as an attachment. I thought it would be prudent to post the contents on this bulletin board.

I received this from a friend, thought I would pass it on to those of you
that use AOL and others..............

Thought I would share with everyone something that happened on Tuesday
night... and I hope that you will all pass this to other AOL members.
While I was online Tuesday night, I was sent me an IM and told me to
checkout the profile of another AOL user named CRAZY70707. Not really
thinking much about it, I pulled the profile up ... and in big red
letters, the word "FROZEN" was at the top of this profile. At first, I
thought it was some kind of a joke, but when I went to click the profile
off of my screen... I couldn't do anything... I was, as the profile
said, frozen.

I sat for a few moments thinking the joke would go away and I could
continue my time on AOL. This wasn't the way it was going to happen.
The only way I could get out was to cntrl/alt/delete. When I was able
to log on again, my computer was sluggish so I logged off again. A few
hours later when I decided to try again... I clicked on my AOL icon and
a warning came up that I would need to reinstall AOL... it had been
completely wiped from our system.

When Alan got home, he called AOL to see if they could tell what
happened.
When he told the AOL rep about CRAZY70707, she pulled the profile up and
guess what...as you might have already guessed... her computer froze up
as mine did. We had to reinstall 4.0 and 5.0 again ... and we all know
how much of a pain that is. We have lost everything in our download
file, as well as everything stored in our favorite places.

I am sending this as a warning to you all .. do not pull this profile
up...

Whoever this person is, he's an idiot ... he's been reported and I am
hoping that AOL is smart and will discontinue his membership. In the
meantime, however, don't get stuck in the same mess that we were ...
and, by all means, pass this to as many people as you can.

Tommy-Dice