Re: E-Mail Virus Alert

Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:38:25 +0100

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

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