At 07:25 AM 8/9/96 +0000, Joanne Minneci wrote:

>> Ah, Harry. I was bold - but doesn't the urban myth say that if you receive a
>> message with Good Times in the subject line, and you open it, then you will
>> be subjected to the worst virus known to man!!! What kind of hysteria have
>> you caused (and what have I perpetuated) by posting any message entitled Good
>> Times?
>
>*****
>better question - even after all of this hoopla, did anyone else read
>the message without bothering to look at the "subject line" besides me?
>**perhaps it was a diversion, and the "real" message is stull lurking
>out there?
>
>he he he he

Allow me to submit this for your approval...

I say the "Good Times" virus IS real.  It DOES exist.  It DOES enter your
system simply by reading your e-mail.

It DOES NOT affect your hard drive, or harm your data or files IN ANY WAY.

What it DOES do is eat up bandwith, waste the precious time of thousands of
readers, and upset one or two cranky types.  All without writing a single
line of code.

(Of course, 90% of the Internet falls under this definition.)

Devilishly clever...





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