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From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A *Big* Thank You
Summary: Ditto
Message-ID: <367@execu.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 05:11:31 GMT
References: <361@itivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Organization: Home for Recalcitrant Hackers
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In article <361@itivax.UUCP> scs@itivax.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons) writes:
>
>In the midst of all the frantic work to eradicate the worm and
>innoculate ourselves against it in the future, let's not forget
>a big Thanks to all the folks who moved so incredibly fast on
>finding it, creating fixes, and distributing them with large
>chunks of the net going to hell in a handbasket.  We're in your
>debt, folks.
>
>Steve Simmons, Systems Support Mgr, ITI

I'd like to add my thanks as well.  Although a UUCP site, we didn't have any
idea that that was a plus in safety.  We DID know though that some really
good people were working on the problem and getting timely patches and
procedures distributed that our small organisation would have been completely
unable to produce ourselves.  Because of these people not only finding out
what was going on but also informing us, we didn't have to draw back into
a turtle shell and depend on poor newscasts and (shudder) the local 
imitation of a newspaper.  Many thanks and lots of appreciation.

On the next area of consideration, who's gonna get hold of the bastard
that caused this and beat the shit out of him?  Having a daddy that's a 
supposedly high security muckety-much should, if anything, imply that the
[censored] should know a lot better...  And its not like the law is gonna
do much, the isn't even a clear picture of what laws are broken by ruining
the days of hundreds or thousands of people..

What the hell, someone had to say that part.  If you disagree, don't let
that stop you from thanking the GOOD folks.

Dewey Henize
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