From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Apr 03 1999 - 00:36:01 MST
The reason you saw a notice from me regarding the THAAD
failure on Thursday afternoon when I actually posted it Monday
morning (an hour after the event) was that our computers were
melissa-ed and the network was down all week.
CNN reports they nabbed the dirty scoundrel who wrote the
virus. I cheered. For about three seconds. Then I said: wait
a minute. What charge? Is this not covered under the US
first amendment granting free speech? If he is charged with
obstructing public communications, should not Microsloth
be named as a co-conspirator? Should not this perp and
Bill Gates share a cell? Could not Microsloth have shipped
their product so that macros were disabled until *specifically
enabled* by the 2% of the populace that will ever actually
read the manual and decide we *need* word macros? How
many of you among the writhing amoeba of extropianism
have ever actually used a MS word macro? More than
once?
Legal eagles, help me out here: is the melissa author in real
danger of going to the slammer? I am tempted to defend the
unsavory character. He did us all a service by pointing out
yet another bug in Microsloth word. spike
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