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From: "Hacksaw" <hacksaw@user1.channel1.com>
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Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT
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Date: 24 Dec 1996 03:37:00 -0500
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JOSE_M@internetMCI.com writes:

> That message don't make any since.....<scratching head>
> all e-mail is text only... how can you hide a binary file in
> ascii format??? you can't unless that tag a file with a text
> and then you have to run  i manualy......

Sounds like the Good Times "Virus". Read that hoax. You can look it up
on Yahoo.

Posting such an announcement qualifies the poster as a true net bozo.
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