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At 04:22 PM 2000/03/19 -0500, Sylvia Berger <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in part: > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0017_01BF91B5.24086020 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >I've been lurking in the wings for a while but after all the trouble = >people have had, thought I'd best come out and warn everyone about this = >Although it may be a hoax I figure its better to be safe thn sorry >Subject: Fw: New! Viruses >1)There is a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on e-mail titled >CALIFORNIA. IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful... hii sylvia the wobbler is a hoax virus in other words, it's a fraud, a fabrication, a digital lie these sentences in the message are a dead give-away: "... and please pass this message on to all your contacts ..." "...Forward this letter out to as many people as you can...." the fact that your message contains the fake virus warning and was sent to 1800 people minimum and then was replied to and duplicated by kelly and was sent to 1800 people and then was replied to and duplicated by camilla and was sent to 1800 people is what forms the core of this scam / virus / garbage and what proves out its 'success' to its puerile dweeb perpetratora to add insult to injury every time your message has been replied to in full it has increased in size from 5 to 7 to 9K, viz: Sylvia Berger 04:22 PM 2000/03/19 -0500 5 Virus Alert Kelly Grant 04:59 PM 2000/03/19 -0500 7 Re: Virus Alert Camilla Flintermann 05:50 PM 2000/03/19 -0500 9 Virus= HOAX yikes, all that wasted time and space and energy and bandwidth! i have replied to your message myself but i have taken the step of deleting most of it so as not to contribute to the overflow this method of 'replying in part' as opposed to 'replying in full' is considered one of the hallmarks of good netiquette i just wish the smarty-pants dweebs that keep dreaming up these scams designed specifically to intimidate non-dweebs on the internet might could find another slightly more productive outlet for all their brain-power like bio-chemical-neurological research! yours in fighting the revenge of the nerds janet ps in terms of reducing bandwidth useage i would suggest that you change your own e-mail software settings so that the content type 'multi-part' messages is NOT selected: viz: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. also, changing to plain text formatting in the US ASCII character set will eliminate the '=20 etc peskies' and NOT: >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0