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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Heatseeker & Viruses
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Date: 24 Jun 91 14:26:23 GMT
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In article <910624033812.116808@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>I do apologize if anyone, especially Mr.  Curtis, was offended or
>insulted by my comments questioning the wisdom of accepting software of
>unknown provenance.  (At the risk of offending a whole nationality some
>scholarly reference to Greeks bearing gifts would be a propos.)  But I
>meant them seriously and none of the few comments I've received change

Apology accepted, and I understand your cautious attitude.  I think
everyone's a little edgy, myself included.

>the situation much.  Jeff claims he is well-known to this list -- that
>has to be somewhat of an exaggeration in that in the last month there
>have been 1,396 messages posted to it, of which only 8 came from him;

I never remember saying I was well-known - in fact, I only got the
Usenet software operational here about a week ago, and I doubt could have
gotten that popular out of eight posts.. B^)

>who he says he is.  (I'm sure you all remember the kremvax hoax of
>several years ago -- one cannot necessarily believe the headers on an
>e-mail message.)

Actually, I don't (see above..).. what was it?

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