[448] in libertarians
Re: E-mail Virus??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Mon Dec 5 20:16:12 1994
To: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
Cc: libertarians-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: libertarains@MIT.EDU, safe@MIT.EDU, objectivism@MIT.EDU, politics@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Dec 1994 18:25:28 EST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 20:04:54 EST
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@MIT.EDU>
About the e-mail virus :
A) I really, really doubt this is possible. E-mail is nearly always a
passive medium. A Perl script wouldn't do it, because it wouldn't run just
from viewing the message, or "downloading" it whatever that means.
B) I have gotten about a dozen copies of this warning, but I have yet to hear
about even one person who was affected by this. What's the real e-mail virus
here?
I strongly suspect that this is a hoax, and I think people should stop flooding
each other's inboxes with it.
- MS
