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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:53:52 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        patl@phoenix.volant.org
Cc:        "Theo Purmer (Tepucom)" <theo@tepucom.nl>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Virus Announcements 
Message-ID:  <22578.922773232@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:47:41 -0800." <ML-3.3.922744061.6521.patl@asimov> 

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In message <ML-3.3.922744061.6521.patl@asimov>, patl@phoenix.volant.org writes:
>> And mind you, the two of you may sit in your own private heavens,
>> but many of the rest of us work in the real world.  This particular
>> outbreak seems to warrant the original email.
>
>If by 'the real world' you mean an environment where you need to
>worry about virii that infect Windows, M$ Word documents, Excell
>spreadsheets, etc.; then you should be subscribed to one or more
>lists dedicated to those topics.  Let's keep this list FreeBSD
>specific, please.

By 'the real world' I mean the one where people are not fanatic
minimalists, and where the exception to the rule is recognized as
what defines the shape of the rule.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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