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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: The worm's real purpose
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Date: 4 Nov 88 10:20:51 GMT
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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I think the purpose of this worm is to scare the shit out of everyone.

As in: "This is a test.  This is only a test.  Had this been an actual
virus, you would all (in another two months) be up shit's creek without
a paddle, compass, or bowsprit."

There's a cluster of machines at the University of ********* that hang
if anyone on the ARPANET merely pongs them.  The sysadmins and program-
mers have been asked to fix it, but their response is that they can't
afford to.  JHCOAB, they can't afford to NOT fix it.

Me?  I encourage the wormer to keep testing once a month.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720