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From: cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert)
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Subject: Re: A *Big* Thank You
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Date: 8 Nov 88 16:13:36 GMT
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In article <367@execu.UUCP> dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) writes:
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>On the next area of consideration, who's gonna get hold of the bastard
>that caused this and beat the shit out of him?

Well, I'm not sure I go along with that.  No actual harm done besides the
results of our own panic.  In the end,  a benign worm revealed a nasty hole
in the security.

Now, about that panic:  who's gonna put together a cogent,  readable press
release to counter all the sensational tripe that the media have been
inventing,  in their benighted ignorance?  Something that conveys the idea
that we're not a mob of moon-eyed boffins at the mercy of our machines.

Charlie