And when I emailed that link to other folks in my department I got a stack of puzzled replies. Many didn't bother to read more than one paragraph - and only one person laughed. <sigh>

I got a better response when I posted this to them yesterday. From one of the security advisory sites:

Just going through the security advisories for today -

[slackware-security] Mutt buffer overflow in IMAP support

The mutt mail client packages in Slackware 8.1 and 9.0 have been upgraded to mutt-1.4.1i to fix a security problem discovered by Core Security Technologies. This issue may allow a remote attacker controlling a malicious IMAP server to execute code on your machine as the user running mutt if you connect to the IMAP server using mutt.

All sites running mutt are advised to upgrade.

I read the headline incorrectly and just about choked on my Lucozade.

Okay, it isn't an April Fool's joke, but it made me laugh anyway.