🚀 go-pugleaf

So I said:
> > So, in summary, I have yet to see anyone on this group who understood
> > exactly what Dr. Cohen was refering to disagree with his assertions.
> > What is being argued here is definitions and personally I think its a
> > bit ungentlemanly for Dr. Cohen to make his various statements without
> > cleary explaining that he is using the term virus in a form which the
> > average individual of some computer knowledge would not be familiar
> > with.
> 
So Dr. Cohen Said:
> I have clearly explained my definition hundreds of times - literally.
> I have published the definition in journals - and books - and on radio
> - - and on television - and in popular magazines - and over the networks
> of the world - over the last 9 years.  Perhaps the problem is that so
> many others don't bother to do the background work and then make
> statements as if they were experts.  They then propogate the incorrect
> memes and corrupt the `average' individual's perception.  Perhaps it
> is those people who are being `ungentlemanly', and not me.  A real
> expert bothers to get the facts before making assertions.
> 
Many people are familiar with your work and writings, myself
included. 

However, the very fact that there has been continual conflict on this
group from people who did NOT know your definition shows that
there are a lot of people out there who are not familiar with it.
The average user simply doesn't (nor should he) read virus papers
and such. So when you made your various assertions regarding the use
of viruses many people became confused and argued with you, not on
the merit of your concepts, but on what they perceived as a
definition problem. As such, it would only seem apropriate that
before you start a major thread on a subject which includes a
non-standard definition, that you perhaps explain it first. 

					Yaron (The Jester) Goland