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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Available CD-ROMs for Macintosh
Message-ID: <420@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 89 18:40:17 GMT
References: <102@dbase.UUCP> <32391@apple.Apple.COM> <2349@internal.Apple.COM> <7947@saturn.ucsc.edu> <2366@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <2366@internal.Apple.COM> blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>In article <7947@saturn.ucsc.edu> alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. 
>Rosenberg) writes:
>> Although each group does extensively check and recheck the masters
>> for viruses, this doesn't prevent some boneheads at the mastering
>> company from infecting it. :-) (no names, of course)
>
...
>the mastering company eats the costs on such a matter.  All the mastering 
>companies that I'm aware of are now as strict as BMUG or BCS in keeping 
>viruses out of their systems.

And the one ``bonehead'' instance I *have* heard of was caught before
any of the bad discs were distributed.  (I think some the bad ones had
holes punched in them and were made into badges.)

I would trust any of the BMUG or BCS discs.  All I need is a CD
player.

Kent Borg 
kent@lloyd.uucp 
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