Marsha,

Accidents happen.   Just be glad that it wasn't an "US" type of message. 
'Spam' is cheap meat and that term (on the internet) reffers to junk e-mail or
unwanted electronic ad's etc..

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> 
> Dear Histonetters,
> In reference to "Check it out" microsoft scam. I apologize, my 14 year old
> must have forwarded that to all the addresses in my address book. I had no
> idea what you were talking about. I have changed my password and set him up
> an account, so hopefully this will not happen again. Again my apologies.
> 
>    By the way what does spam mean?
> 
> Marsha Price

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best regards,
Bob
Robert Schoonhoven
Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis
Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
University of North Carolina
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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