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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FBI Contact re: November Internet Virus
Message-ID: <1742@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 88 12:32:35 GMT
References: <8811141359.AB05134@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <557@comdesign.CDI.COM>
Reply-To: sean@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Sean McLinden)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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In article <557@comdesign.CDI.COM> pst@canary.cdi.com (Paul Traina) writes:
:From article <8811141359.AB05134@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by TomZ@DDN1.ARPA:
:: 
::          Were YOU hit by the November Internet Virus?
::  
::                       The FBI wants to hear from you!
>[deleted....]
:: PLEASE GIVE THIS MESSAGE MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION; NOT EVERYONE IS ON "TCP-IP"!
:: /s/
:: Tom Zmudzinski
:: DDN Security Officer
:: (703) 285-5206
:
:Sigh.  ... not everyone is on "TCP-IP" ...?  Everyone who got hit by the
:f-cking virus was.  You whould think the DDN's security officer would know
:better.
:
:[junk deleted which suggested paranoia on the part of the poster]
:------
:Paul Traina

This type of comment is totally uncalled for. 1). Tom was referring
to the TCP-IP mailing group. 2). I have had a couple of occasions to talk
with Tom since this whole thing started and I have found him to be quite
helpful, open to suggestions, and willing to share appropriate information.
I am not opposed to personal flames (though it is not my style), but this
one was simply ungrounded and contributed nothing to our understanding of
the problem.

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory