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From: battleaxe@cwc.lsu.edu (Scott Hoppe)
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Subject: PENPAL GREETINGS! (was Re: VIRUS ALERT)
Date: 27 Dec 1996 16:42:06 GMT
Organization: The United States Civil War Center
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>In article <59nb2t$eck@news3.texas.net>, jmh@intrepid.net (Little John)
wrote:
>>Subject: Fw: IMPORTANT! virus alert - " Trojan Horse" -Forwarded
>>Date: Monday, December 09, 1996 9:37 PM
>>
>>Subject: Virus Alert
>>Importance: High
>>
>>If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL
>>GREETINGS! ; please delete it
>>WITHOUT reading it.
In article <59nmve$phs@synthemesc.insync.net>, mtm@insync.net says...
>
>What is this? Another "Good Time's Virus" scare? This is crazy. Email can't
>contain a virus. Maybe a binary attachment, but then you have to actually
run
>it. Someday these people will learn....
>
They completely missed the joke this time, because the original poster didn't
use the Subject: 'PENPAL GREETINGS!'.
--
-=( Scott )=-
Scott Hoppe <battleaxe@cwc.lsu.edu>
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/people/shoppe/staff.htm