Thanks so much to all of you who send along amusing videos and Powerpoint attachments - I love that you think to include me in hilarity when these arrive in your inbox. And it's no longer painful since I upgraded from dialup.

However, if there's no personal message from you in the body of the email, I'm just going to delete the email.

With the proliferation of viruses that can either 1) cause your email client to send harmful attachments to everyone in your addressbook or 2) spoof your email address to make it look as though the harmful attachment is coming from you, it's just not worth it to me or my computers to assume it really is from you.

It's not a personal thing against you - viruses can come from anywhere, and this is just me protecting myself. All you have to do is say something unique in the body of the email and include your name and I promise I'll take a look at the email. Extensive experience with responses to personals ads has taught me to tell personal from generic messages, so something more than "take a look at this!" would be most helpful.

Thanks for spreading the joy!