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From: treeves@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry N Reeves)
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal...
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:10:39 GMT
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Having an anti-virus virus ask users for permission to infect sounds like a 
nifty way out of the ethical dilemma, but no. 

	Your target audience is naive users. They will NOT understand the 
implications of the decision. These are people who will not run disinfectant 
even though we have backdrop screens asking them too. 

	Those of us in the support area also do not appreciate another 
complication to the question "why does X fail?" . "Well gee, "have you said yes
to any questions you didn't understand lately?" 


	
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