Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: pjc@sirius.melb.bull.oz.au (Paul Carapetis) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: AF/91 and April Foolism in general Message-ID: <0002.9104181344.AA09450@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 17 Apr 91 19:48:59 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 27 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 09:46:16 +0100 > From: Anthony Appleyard > > In reply to these, I say this. Jokes can only be allowed to go so far. Too > often people try to cap each other's jokes and go too far and cause much > unfunny nuisance. Ref what someone in my scubadiving club said after a bout I agree that there should be a limit to "jokes" but it seems to me that such articles are easily spotted if read in full and have their own merit in the form of some relief from the serious and morbid atmospheres in this industry with a small light-hearted beam of joviality! I don't know about you, but I don't belive anything written in journals, magazines, newspapers etc. without confirmation from a reliable source (none of the previous fit into this category, IMHO). To go off in a big flap over an obvious april fools joke is a sign that a holiday/vacation should be the next course of action. Have a laugh - you'd be surprised how good it can make you feel! Yours with a smile :-) Paul | Paul Carapetis, Software Advisor (Unix, DOS) | Phone: 61 3 4200944 | | Melbourne Development Centre | Fax: 61 3 4200445 | | Bull HN Information Systems Australia Pty Ltd |-------------------------| | Internet: pjc@melb.bull.oz.au | What's said here is my | | ACSnet : pjc@bull.oz | opinion (so I am told!) |