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Re[2]: Fwd: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander, Larry)
Fri Mar 31 20:35:20 1995
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 20:23:00 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: lalexander@acad.com
From: "Alexander, Larry" <lalexander@acad.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT
Author: rfelix@netcom.com at ~Internet_Mail
Date: 3/31/95 2:57 PM
> Just wait. It's going to get much worse before it gets any better.
> The Internet has, until now, been the haunt mainly of academics, re-
> search groups, and bright young university students.
>
> Notice how many of the nutty postings come from .com, .aol, etc. ad-
> dresses....
>
> Richard Goerwitz
> goer@midway.uchicago.edu
>
>>er...uh..excuse me????
>>
>>A huge percentage of the .com hierarchy are commercial hardware
>>and/or software development organizations in the world...While some
>>commercial service providers have .com addresses, there are
>>thousands or hundreds of thousands of engineers, scientists, system
>>administrators etc, etc who post from these accounts...I would hate
>>to see a couple of dingy posts make anyone think that those posting
>>from this type of account are less than credible, it just aint so...
>>
>>rf
rf,
I couldn't agree more. I know some very high-level people who use <gulp> Prodigy
and the like for various reasons, such as the access # is a local call. Please
don't condemn us .com folks.
Larry
lalexander@acad.com
wuapub@netcom.com
lalex@ix.netcom.com
lalex@aol.com
jajk91a@prodigy.com
