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- From: o.crepin-leblond@ic.ac.uk (OlivierM.J. Crepin-Leblond)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: The Internet Worm (CVP)
- Message-ID: <0019.9301071651.AA16031@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 15:44:43 GMT
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- >From rslade@sfu.ca Fri Dec 25 08:15:00 1992
- >Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 00:15:35 -0800
- >From: rslade@sfu.ca
- >Subject: The Internet Worm (CVP)
- >
- >HISVIRO.CVP 921215
- >
- > The Internet Worm
- >
- >By the fall of 1988, VIRUS-L had been established (let's hear it for
- >Ken!) and was very active. Issues were, in fact, coming out on a
- >daily basis, so I was quite surprised when I didn't receive one on
- >November 3rd. I didn't get one on November 4th, either. It wasn't
- >until November 5th, actually, that I found out why.
-
- This is incorrect. The first digest of VIRUS-L appeared on 9th Nov 88.
- I suspect that this was triggered by the FLOOD of undigested messages
- that had to be sent all around the place during the week 1 Nov to 8th
- Nov 88. (am I right, Ken ?)
-
- [Moderator's note: For the e-record, VIRUS-L Volume 1 Issue 1 was
- posted Wednesday, 9 Nov 1988, just a few days after the Internet worm
- incident. The primary input behind going digest+moderation at that
- time was a storm of ASCII "pictures" that were posted to the group.
- That, plus the added discussions due to the worm prompted several
- people (including myself) to want the list to go to digest format. In
- any event, VIRUS-L was distributed unmoderated and undigested from
- Fri, 22 Apr 88 07:48:39 EDT (when I sent the first announcement to the
- newly formed group) until 9 November. The distribution was from
- LEHIIBM1.BITNET aka IBM1.CC.Lehigh.Edu - the same IBM 4381 mainframe
- that served the group until July 1992, when we switched over - not
- without pain - to an RS6000 running AIX and IDA's sendmail.]
-
- VIRUS-L was a BITNET listserv list (LEHIIBM1.BITNET) and was just an
- email exploder, forwarding messages on BITNET and traffic went-on
- throughout the internet worm. I recall receiving messages here in UK
- via EARN-RELAY (known as UKACRL.BITNET). It was interesting to read
- messages as they came in. I remember spending most of the 4th of
- November 1988 on my terminal, reading message after message. (or was
- it 5th ?)
-
- Receiving so many messages per day was quite exciting, since I had
- only started to subscribe to VIRUS-L a week earlier. An amazing
- coincidence. Judging from the nonsense that was often written, the
- amount of confusion amongst those affected by the worm was at a peak.
- Rumours spread so quickly.
-
- - --
- Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
- Internet/Bitnet: <foobar@ic.ac.uk> - Janet: <foobar@uk.ac.ic>
-