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From: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: We're not REALLY going away, are we?
Message-ID: <2025@gondor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 00:35:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 00:35:23 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 03:46:24 EST
Reply-To: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ.
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This posting appeared over the weekend in control.

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>Article 3422 of control:
>Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gondor.UUCP
>Path: gondor!psuvax1!burdvax!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittatc!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!4pnhi!usenet
>From: usenet@4pnhi.UUCP
>Newsgroups: net.general.ctl
>Subject: rmgroup net.jokes
>Message-ID: <666@4pnhi.UUCP>
>Date: 2 Mar 86 08:56:38 GMT
>Date-Received: 9 Mar 86 05:28:43 GMT
>Control: rmgroup net.jokes
>Sender: news@4pnhi.UUCP
>Distribution: net
>Organization: Grand Junction, Jupiter
>Lines: 1
>Approved: usenet@4pnhi.UUCP
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>Management has decreed that we no longer support this newsgroup.
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Now, before you get all fired up over this, go read it again and study the
header in detail.

(I'll wait for you here.)

You couldn't possibly have reread it in that short period of time.

Done?  Okay, it would appear that we have a Worm on the network.
(The kind that gives hackers a bad name.)  Anyway, whoever posted
it was at least curteous to leave little clues that suggest that
it just MIGHT not be real.  Just in case your local news
administrator has no sense of humor, tell him to send a note to
4pnhi.  (heh heh heh - try it yourself if you don't understand)

						---Duck

P.S.  Another clue:  The thing goes through houxm on it's path.
     (Which IS a valid node, by coincidence)