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Re: DON'T DO THIS! (please!) Re: i'm sorry :)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pheret)
Thu Jan 30 01:08:46 1997

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:17:48 -0800 (PST)
From: pheret <pheret@pheret.com>
To: firewalls@greatcircle.com
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32EF6F93.59E2B600@telecnnct.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Jim Harmon wrote:


*Since there are only 30-50 million people on the Internet, this "virus"
*scare is intended to generate enough mail to stuff millions of mailboxes
*with mail, mostly mail "warning against the deadly Goodtimes Virus".

well, it works, doesn't it?  an email virus, replicating and
replicating!

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