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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: Would you hire The Worm?
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Date: 15 Nov 88 14:54:58 GMT
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Let me join Steve Friedl in saying that it is inappropriate for you to
flame Ross for posting to the net.  I believe it is his personal
system, so if he posts from root, so what?  And I know for a fact he
*is* paying attention to this discussion.  He interviewed me about some
of the things I said on the net.  He also asked technically appropriate
questions, which is more than I can say for some of the media
organizations who have interviewed some of us in recent days.  (Would
you believe I had someone ask me right after the worm hit whether or
not users had to worry about catching the virus?  Sheesh!).

Discourage the obvious turkeys, but let's try not to pick on sincere
and technically competent people.

BTW, you might not recognize his name, but I am told that Mr. Greenberg
is the author of one of the better PC anti-viral programs.  He has been
working in that area for a few years, and thus may have more insight
into some of the problems than many of the people flaming him will ever
hope to have.