My old uni friend
My old Uni mate works is contracted on a web learning project for the Met police based at their HQ in Hendon. He's always been on the ball when it comes to "finding" and downloading things on the Internet so when I needed some new software he was the first person i thought of. Now when we were at work we'd talk a lot via email so rather than add his address to my contacts I’d just hit reply to the latest message.
This seemed floorless except that the new software idea didn't come to me at work, it came to me at home. Not knowing his address, i thought I’d take a stab at it... I mean I know his name and i know the contract companies name, so I know it ends in "contractcompany".com. Perfect. Only i forgot the dot after his first initial and (as was the way) my email asking if he could copy the software and stick some porn on the CD to fill the space up was filtered through the met police mail system to the director in charge of the contractors... Who happened to be a proper chief copper and not a civilian!!!

Fortunately he had a sense of humour and combined with my mates hails of ignorance to who i was meant he got off with it. Needless to say i'm encouraged to email only his yahoo account now. Still the advent of Gmail should prevent any similar mistakes... or will it?
(The Duke of Pontefract, Thu 26 May 2005, 14:01, Reply)