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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: Re: Getting Even
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Date: 8 Nov 88 15:25:26 GMT
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In article <2622@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>First off, why didn't he own up when it could have made a difference.  A lot
>of people lost a lot of sleep for fear that a) there may have been more to
>the worm than they had found, and b) that the thing may have a destructive
>bent.  If he had admitted to it thursday or friday, and told people about the
>'pleasequit' option, things mightn't have been so bad.

From "Contagion Overpowers Creator", The Washington Post, 11/7/88

   "Desperately working into the early hours of Thursday morning, Morris
struggled to find a way to stop the virus's [sic] spread.
   'But he was besieged by his own creation,' said Mark Friedell, an
assistant professor of computer science at Harvard University who served
as Morris' thesis adviser last year when he was a Harvard senior.  'His
machines at Cornell were so badly clogged he couldn't get the message
out.'
   Panicked, Morris called Andy Sudduth, systems manager at the Aiken
Laboratory at Harvard where Morris had spent thousands of hours.  He
asked Sudduth to send urgent messages to a computer billboard,
explaining how to defeat the virus [sic], according to Sudduth.
   'The nets were like molasses,' Sudduth said yesterday.  'It took me
more than an hour to get anything out at all.'"


Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development