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Some more interesting info. Just rember don't beleive everything that you read. HOAX! (New virus on the Internet!) _________________________________________________________________ >From texmex@neosoft.com (Steve Patlan) Organization none Date 18 Nov 1996 18:31:51 GMT Newsgroups comp.mail.pine Message-ID <56qa2n$aqn@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> References 1 _________________________________________________________________ > genelu@hawaii.edu (Genel M Uehara) writes: (Something that anybody who's been on the Internet for more than five minutes should have recognized as the Good Times warning) > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:36:10 -1000 > From: "Julienne K. Maeda" <maeda.5@osu.edu> .. > >Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:22:56 -0500 (EST) > >From: obryant.2@osu.edu (Camille O'Bryant) .. >>>>>The following is an e-mail I received from someone at the School of >>>>>Management at Rutgers University. The message had been forwarded from >>>>>quite a few credible organizations,including Rutgers, so I'm going to ^^^^^^^^ You misspelled "credulous and unobservant" >>>>>assume this is a real scare. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You misspelled "Display my ignorance before the entire world." >>>>>Prof. Shields .. >>>>>>receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Irina", DO NOT read the >>>>>>message, DELETE it immediately. Some This warning was a stupid publicity stunt by Penguin books, for a new release which was also available on the web or something. They assumed that most peopl e would recognize it as the *exact same text* of the Good Times warning, only wit h the word "Irina" substituted for "Good Times". Of course, they were wrong - an d simpletons have been forwarding the warning for months now. Sheesh. - Steve Patlan -- <*> texmex@neosoft.com