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echo: os2inet
to: ALL
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-03-30 01:01:00
subject: VIRUS WARNING!!!!

Kristopher Young wrote in a message to All:
 KY> ****ENGLISH****
 KY> This is an important virus warning. Please share it to all
 KY> people that have access to the internet.
 KY> If anyone receives mail entitled; "PENPAL GREETINGS!" please
 KY> delete it WITHOUT reading it!!!
 KY> This is a warning for all internet users - There is a
 KY> dangerous virus propagating across the internet through an
 KY> e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GRETINGS!".
 KY> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!"!!!
This is bogus and any other email virus warnings are equally bogus. The 
actual PenPal virus is the billions of wasted bytes of bandwidth the message 
generates. The perpetrator of hoaxes like these gets a kick out of seeing for 
how many years the hoax still circulates the world and the net. 
Dave Calafrancesco - OS2INET moderator 
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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