Re: E-Mail Virus Alert

From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Tue Sep 17 1996 - 08:38:25 EDT


At 13:53 17/09/96 +0800, you wrote:
>Sorry to lurk for so long before posting, but I'd hate for anyone to get
>this nasty computer virus...
>I just received the following from a u.s. military source:
>
>:
  CUT

The irresponsibility of the author of this message in spreading to the
entire list a two year old joke is only exceeded by his technical illiteracy
in swallowing whole such "magic" words as "an nth-complexity infinite binary
loop".

There is even a FAQ on the Web devoted to this, since the hoax was so
successfull -- it can be found at:

 http://www.udel.edu/richard/TH/goodt.html

Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros@iol.ie

[using Eudora Pro v 2.2 ]



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