Re: virus: Beginnings

zaimoni@ksu.edu
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 14:05:30 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Lior Golgher wrote:

> ? ?ed:
> About a year ago I got into spiritualism. I was surfing at random, and
> I just put in :lucifer.com. I didn't join the mailing list until about
> a month ago.
> ---
> ALL - Could CoV really be classified under spiritualism, or is it just
> the work of some lazy search engine?
>
> Thread becoming quite interesting, tracking down the purely chaotic ways
> in which we've met...

No.

Note that this person *didn't* use a search engine. He extrapolated that
a node called "lucifer.com" would have a high probability of containing
useful mailing lists. This is a plausible extrapolation.

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