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From: abc@BRL.MIL (Brint Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: (none)
Message-ID: <8811091615.aa24516@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 88 21:15:41 GMT
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Organization: The Internet
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All the media insist that 60,000 (!) computers were affected (6,000
sounds more plausibe really...  but then.  I also noticed that everyone
but CNN used the (obsolescent) term "arpanet" instead of (more
accurate) Internet and Time referred to arpanet and milnet as separate
entities (administratively perhaps, but electronically any difference
is transparent).

The NY times says the Lewis, Sr said he thought Jr had given up thinking
about breaking into computers about the time he discovered girls (maybe
that was only last week -- some computer gnomes don't get the urge until
their mid-twenties if at all :-) -- Welcome back
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Murph,

    I'm not even going to try and explain what happened to
info-apple@brl.mil and to 6000 other Internet hosts.  Besides, they've
probably already read about it in the newspaper (however wrong that
might have been) and on other BBS's.

    But it's good to be back.  We returned to the net last evening.
I was beginning to feel genuine depression and alienation as I had
become cutoff from a large community of friends!

_Brint

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