Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!apple!vsi1!ames!fxgrp!grady From: grady@fxgrp.UUCP (Steven Grady) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: The Virus & Damage Control Message-ID: <851@fxgrp.UUCP> Date: 5 Nov 88 19:23:07 GMT References: <11221@cgl.ucsf.EDU> Reply-To: grady@fxgrp.UUCP (Steven Grady) Organization: FX Development Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 12 In article <11221@cgl.ucsf.EDU> kscott@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Kevin Scott) writes: >Hats off to those of you who >thought to call the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. > No no no. That was a joke name for the XCF (Experimental Computing Facility) at UC Berkeley. (The XCF is at "scam.berkeley.edu".) They used CDC as a nickname, once they found a patch to the worm. Steven ...!ucbvax!grady grady@postgres.berkeley.edu