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From: olsen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Jim Olsen)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Discretion is the better part of valor.
Message-ID: <1151@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 88 22:13:38 GMT
References: <361@itivax.UUCP> <367@execu.UUCP> <16612@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu (Jim Olsen)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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>From the Sunday New York Times (page 1):
>"[Robert Morris] quickly recognized that things had gone terribly wrong
>and, they disclosed, he arranged for a friend to send out instructions
>on eradicating the virus to the same computers plagued by the virus."

Has anyone identified this alleged eradication message?  I checked our
USENET logs at the time and found no such message.  I only saw partial
reports and patches, later refined as the worm was more fully analyzed.

Where did this "friend" supposedly post the message?