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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Humpback Game
Message-ID: <9109@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 88 19:46:25 GMT
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In article <2290021@hpsadla.HP> erik@hpsadla.HP (Erik Kilk) writes:
>
>I suggest not running HumpBack.  Look how many of us ran the program
>without knowing what it does or how it works or even if anyone has
>ever got it to work.  Will this turn out to be another virus?  Will
>all of us who have run it develop some new computer disease in a few
>months?

It was posted to comp.binaries.mac which, I am pretty sure, means that it
was checked out by the moderator.  I think it is safe to say the moderator
runs a quick check of all programs to see if it is infected, nothing bad has
been posted yet.  

>In these days of viruses, if this is a joke, it's not funny.  I
>wouldn't encourage such postings because one day one of these types
>of innocent looking programs will spit in our face, not through an eye 
>of a needle.

Oh please, let's all stop jumping at shadows.  Someone writes a silly joke
program and people start getting virus panic.  It's a joke program.  Why
does everything have to be a threat?
You make it sound like "Don't cross the street, you might get hit by a
truck."  Relax, look both ways, and stick the camel through the needle, if
you can.

>Erik Kilk

-Andy



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