>- Speaking of Hoax virus warnings,, Kurt Wismer said this to Steve Bennett 
on 21 Apr 97  11:22 -<
 KW> quite frankly there is absolutely no legitimate reason to make a mail
 KW> reader that can do this... mail readers are not supposed to perform
 KW> complex automatic functions, they only view mail... there are other
 KW> programs to perform complex automatic functions...
Ooh...I don't know about that.  I'm sure I could come up with one...how about
a way of embedding commands so you can do underline, or bold?  How about
having a simple macro language that plays sound?  Or one that contains Java?
You can send cute messages with animations to each other!  Then the program
develops, and they see no-one likes Java, so they make it so you can have
any language...you just attach the .exe, and it will run it anyway...
It could happen.
I fear this topic is going the way of the "hardware destroying viruses" one.
:-)
Steve
... Blue Wave - World Tour - 1997
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