Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!apple!usc!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: biar!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: 2 remarks Message-ID: <0005.y8907171856.AA19378@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 18 Jul 89 19:55:55 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 15 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) writes: >1. The English language has certain traditional ways of naming groups >of animals, e.g., a goggle of goblins, a school of fish, a pack of >wolves, etc. Since both `virus' and `Trojan horse' have some kind of >animal overtones, I wonder what other people (preferably English >majors) think is a good way to name a group of those beasts. 1) A Plague of Viruses. 2) A Herd of Trojan Horses. [Ed. name for "group" of Trojans deleted...] (^;-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-;^) Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc. !uunet!biar!trebor | trebor@biar.UUCP ``I can read your mind - right now, you're thinking I'm full of it...''