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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Guidelines for virus authors
Message-ID: <8802221713.AA03548@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 88 17:13:18 GMT
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>in article <8802072054.AA03747@jade.berkeley.edu+, FATQW@USU.BITNET says:
>+ 
>+ [Yes, I'm serious!!]
>+ 
>+ I don't think we should discourage people from writing viruses, as long as they
>+ are harmless.  You have to make the distinction between a practical joke and
>+ vandallism (sp?). 

	Let me put my answer this way:  If I ever get caught by a
virus, and if I find who the author of said virus is, he can expect
hell on every network I see him on for the rest of his life.

				-Matt