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Re: e-mail virus: "Good Times" - pcert.txt (1/1)

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From: Giolla Decair
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 00:00

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Previously Philip McNab <philip@siberia.demon.co.uk> said:
>           giolla@maghmell.demon.co.uk "Giolla Decair" writes:
>> begin 644 pcert.txt
>[SNIP]
>This 'virus' hoax seems to cloud the judgement of users ...
>Was it really necessary to post the full warning, when a URL for the
>web sites listed in the document would have allowed those who wanted
>it to get the full explanation?

OK, and what about users who don't have web browsers??
For instance most people who use KA9Q etc...

>And why uuencode ASCII text?   A 24k posting to a newsgroup like
>this seems wholly inappropriate.

True. I apologise. I will remember not to trust insert and attach
functions in software again. I should have known it wouldn't have
spotted the difference between a binary and an ascii file, again 
sorry.

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From: giolla@maghmell.demon.co.uk (Giolla Decair)
Subject: Re: e-mail virus:  "Good Times" - pcert.txt (1/1)
Date: 1995/11/02
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