X-Message-Number: 6643 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:29:39 -0300 From: Ken Stone <> Subject: Good Times "virus" Congratulations. You just spread the only kind of virus that can currently be transmitted by e-mail: A meme, or an 'idea virus' that infects the minds of its readers. The Good Times virus itself is a hoax, unless you're counting this meme. The only way the 'Good Times virus' can wipe out your hard drive is if you're naive enough to believe that it will hurt your computer and therefore choose to reformat your own hard drive in a mistaken belief that this will kill it. Legends of its existence have been around for years, though, and therein lies the problem (and the paradoxical joke). The existence of this memetic virus insidiously wastes the time of all of the people who spread it, all the people who read about it, and all the people (like me) who feel the need to notify other people THAT THERE IS NO GOOD TIMES VIRUS. Ken Stone Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6643