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echo: virus_info
to: SCOTT HOFFMAN
from: RICK COLLINS
date: 1997-04-13 11:57:00
subject: Hoax virus warnings,

-=> Quoting Scott Hoffman to Paul Walker <=-
-=> FidoMail to 1:163/215, please.-=<
sh> uhh. yeah o.k. whatever. I thinks you need to go and explore some
sh> software a little more because I can think of a half dozen
sh> programs off the top of my head which can externally invoke a
sh> program from within e-mail automatically. 
Not the point.  What e-mail software do you know of that will, out of
the blue, attempt to _execute_ the e-mail it's reading?
None - because it would be a colossally stupid thing to program a
text processor to do.  You might as well imagine a TV set that, when
tuned to a particular channel and when receiving a particular program
turned into a microwave and began cooking steaks.
That's outrageous - and so would a a mail reader that attempted to
execute the mail.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 13 Apr 12:01 
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