The "good times virus" was a hoax virus scare from several months back.
There is no way that reading email can introduce a virus....
Like many things on the Internet, this issue seems to resurect itself
periodically as people stumble across old email, or newbies on the net
see references to a problem, without seeing references to its resolution.
You can add the good times virus to the FCC idea of modem surcharges, the
200$ cookie recipe, and the boy who want=ed= get well cards.
You should not, however, feel bad about falling for one of these.
Everyone does (I have my letter from a very frustrated FCC bureacrat) and
one of the hazards of the net is that it is very difficult to distinguish
these things. My rule of thumb: read all of my mail before sending out
anything. Usually in a package of 20 emails, the answer to number 2 will
be found in number 15 or so.
* Bob Morrell *
* bmorrell at isnet.is.wfu.edu *
* The operation was a success, as the autopsy will show *
