Virus, Huh?

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

In regard to the latest notes over the so-called "Good Times" non-virus hoax:

I've seen this item pop up with regularity on one list or another every few
months now, ever since *I* got hoodwinked by it a year and a half ago.

What I wonder about is the nature of the hoax itself.  It seems to make no
sense, because if there is no such virus, then it is highly unlikely that
I will ever get a post with the subject "Good Times!" and even if I did, it
is unlikely that it would do me much harm to delete it unread.

So where's the thrill here?  In making a bunch of net-users uneasy until they
are disabused?  Keeping them on the alert for non-existent posts?

It all seems like a cybernetic Borges story (if that's not a redundancy!).


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)