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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources.mac,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 13:06:40 EST
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In article <227@boulder.UUCP> heuring@boulder.UUCP (Vincent Heuring) writes:
>
>You miss the point, Richard. This ugliness is here, just like nuclear
>war, or more to the point, AIDS. And personally, I wouldn't download
>and run a binary without the source to peruse, anymore than I would have
>sex with an anonymous stranger.
>
>Vincent P. Heuring. ECE Dep't. University of Colo. Boulder
>boulder!heuring
>
>"Don't fool with that binary, Roger, you don't know *where* it's been."

 I must have been lucky, having downloaded EVERY binary which has come over
net.sources.mac during the past year.  I have never had a single problem I
would attribute to the bad intentions of those who posted the binary.

There is too much paranoia and too little trust in the world today, there is
no need to go looking for bad intentions here.
-- 
 Jim Budler
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 (408) 749-5806
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