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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!zabriskie.berkeley.edu!spp
  2. From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
  4. Subject: Re: Virus design
  5. Date: 27 Dec 1992 07:30:27 GMT
  6. Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Distribution: inet
  9. Message-ID: <1hjm2jINNgmd@agate.berkeley.edu>
  10. References: <725430469.26792@zooid.guild.org>
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <725430469.26792@zooid.guild.org> ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
  14. >
  15. >I doubt any virus could be beneficial.  
  16.  
  17. I've always regarded netnews software as a form of
  18. computer virus.
  19.  
  20. I won't touch the question of whether it's beneficial, though.
  21.  
  22. Steve
  23.