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From: blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Available CD-ROMs for Macintosh
Message-ID: <2350@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 16:42:56 GMT
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In article <25437@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) 
writes:
>In article <2349@internal.Apple.COM> blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) 
writes:
>>Boston Computer Society, Berkeley Mac User's Group(BMUG), and Educorp 
>>all sell CD-ROMs that have the typical selections of public-domain 
>>and shareware (aka "virusware") stuff. 
                      ^^^^^^^^^ facetious comment without smiley face.
>
>Both BMUG and BCS have gone to great pains to ensure that the contents
>of their respective CDs are free of viruses.

Ooops.  I meant to put a smiley face after the facetious comment but 
missed it.  The translation of spoken English to printed words fails me 
again...

BMUG, BCS, Educorp and every other publisher of collections of software 
take INCREDIBLE pains to ensure that no virus infections exist on their 
disks.  I never meant to imply that any of the organizations listed would 
release a CD with infected software.  They have worked long and hard to 
ensure the quality of the CDs. 

I apologize, John.  I meant the comment as a joke, not as a reflection on 
the quality of the BMUG or any other CD.

I would recommend any of the three CDs as a good source of publicly 
distributable software that is guaranteed to be without virus infections.  
Beyond that, all three CDs include a variety of tools that help you fight 
viruses;  since the tools are on CD-ROM, you are assured that you have at 
least one permanently clean version of these programs.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"