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Subject:	Re: Stunningly ignorant people
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:00:19 GMT
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James Brown wrote: > How can anyone in the I/T industry not be aware of Mailissa? It's stunningly > unsubtle, it screams "I'm a virus, open me!", and it's been in the freaking > evening news! I am in software development. I just thumped one of our testers for forwarding me a warning message (obstensibly from AOL *and* IBM *and* Netscape) about an e-mail virus titled "It Takes Guts To Say Jesus" which, upon opening, will erase your hard drive and *THEN* forward itself to everyone on the planet. I took the time to explain to him about the technical nuances of opening an e-mail message, and the safety hard drives typically have from rogue e-mail messages, and the fact that the message he sent me contained no real references but had more scare material than your typical Y2K panic message. Then I explained that he had indeed propigated a "social" computer virus (i.e. hoax), against which no anti-virus software can defend. To which he replied, "you can't be too careful..." Newbies. Jeez. *thump* ofofftopic: I need to come up with a tern describing drivers who take a full minute to realize the light had turned green... Cheers, - jsproat -- Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/ Darth Maul Lives

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		Re: Stunningly ignorant people
(...) stunningly (...) I'll pray for you. (...) Next time reply, "Yes you can, and you can be ignorant and paranoid, and be unwilling to change." (...) Would that be an arctic tern or a New York tern? (...) I thought I saw him at Safeway the other (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Stunningly ignorant people
Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote in message news:37619503.B60145...ies.com... (...) full (...) How about "DMV Emplyee of the Year"? (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Stunningly ignorant people
Ok. This is a rhetorical question, mostly as an excuse to vent. How could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly ignorant as to catch the Mailissa virus? For that matter, how could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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