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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SUGGESTIONS....
Message-ID: <4626@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 05:40:27 GMT
References: <495@psu-cs.UUCP>
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: what about us non-programmers without compilers?

In article <495@psu-cs.UUCP>, alexc@psu-cs.UUCP (Alex M. Chan.) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> 	Since that there is a few VIRUS programs being posted on the net
> and they all would do damages to you work. I would suggested that in the
> futher if anyone wanted to post any programs on the net, only post the
> the SOURCE code and all the necessary infomation to compile the programs.
> Instead of just execuatables. If those programers who do not want to
> 
This would not help us non-programmers or non-compilers owners in
our access to good, already-compiled software.

How about trying to find out where the viruses are coming from?  No
one responded to my previous posting, asking or speculating about 
their origin.  Come on, those of you deep in the programming world
ought to have some idea!!  You can post hundreds of repetitive mess-
ages about paying or not paying for shareware.  How about a little
group epidemiology investigating the origin of virus programs.  They
are as destructive to shareware as a few non-paying users.

Michael Volow, M.D.
Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705
919 286 0411                           mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP