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Koh Neglects Fact Concerning Virus

TO THE EDITORS

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Eugene Koh, in his December 13 column on the Good Times "virus" ("Good Times," On Technology column), missed one vital point: there actually was a virus. The message about the so-called Good Times virus spawned thousands, if not millions, of copies of itself, through the transmission vector of the humans thatread it. The message itself was the virus, but instead of infecting computers, it infected minds. So the most clever thing about this hoax is that it was (at least partially) self-fulfilling. Derrick E. Bass '95

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