Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!think!whitney
From: whitney@think.COM (David Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: To someone in Brooklyn...
Keywords: Festering Hate in '88!  Lordey Dudey's minions are everywhere...
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Date: 31 Aug 88 02:27:39 GMT
References: <3573@charon.unm.edu>
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In article <3573@charon.unm.edu> cscbrkac@unmc.UUCP (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>> David Whitney, MIT '90
>
>> In case everyone else hasn't yet fathomed it, the author of the Festering
>> Hate virus is here on our happy net. Double-check *anything* you take off of
>> Apple2L or comp.binaries.apple2.
>
>Double-checking everything is just common sense, but I think that if you're so
>sure that he's on the net you might do us the favor of sharing with us what
>makes you think so.  I sure haven't seen anything on our "happy net" that
>points to it, but then maybe I'm just not Mr. "Fathom It" today.

Well, he's too smart to brag about it. He sent me some US mail about a
month ago. No return address. In it was the following: (quote)

>>
	One other point, we are monitoring all your blathering on
USENET, and the other networks. We are not two-bit pirates out for a
few laughs, we are a large organized group of serious and dedicated
programmers. Like you, we have access to many resources and channels
of communication as well as facilities and equipment. Recently you
stated the following:

>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 18:16:21 EDT
>From: pnet01!crash!think.com!whitney (David Whitney)
>Subject: Z-Link and virus checking
>
>OK, for starters, I'm pretty upset by this whole virus deal, and I'm
>in the process of doing something about it. The guy who wrote CyberAIDS
>is going to get caught and prosecuted. I won't stop until I'm satisfied.

<<

Well, what do you think? Is he or is he not directly or indirectly on this net?

David Whitney, MIT '90                   DISCLAIMER: Nobody knows what I'm up
{out there}!harvard!think!whitney         to. Don't blame them for my actions
whitney@think.com                         nor me for theirs.
^^^^^ will be changing before 1989 is here. Don't depend on it after 1/1/89.