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From: duncan@geppetto.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES:  DID HE DO US A SER
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Date: 17 Nov 88 12:55:16 GMT
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In article <1564@stiatl.UUCP> john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
>
>In reality, Morris wasted a few hours of each of a few dozen to perhaps
>a hundred people.  *WOW*  If that's so bad, then I would have to ask
>the rhetorical question:  How many thousand man-hours are wasted on Net-
>news each day? (waste = (total hours) - (hours getting something useful))
>I'd think the Morris worm would pale by comparison.

My understanding of what I've heard about the scope and effect of this
problem suggests that many more than "a few dozen to perhaps a hundred
people" were involved.  This impact on system performance seems to have
been such that many users of the affected systems experienced noticeable
loss or degradation of system performance.  There was also the time needed
by some installations, I gather from trying to interpret what I read here,
to bring their systems back up and reinstall some software and files.  I
cannot judge myself what the actual effect may have been in specific cases,
but it certainly sounds like more than a few people were affected.
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speaking only for myself, of course, I am:
Scott P. Duncan  (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)