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From: A Halliwell u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk
Subject: attachments
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 18:34:05 +0000 (GMT)
And verily, did Jett hastily scribble thusly...
|> ||I just got an attachment "winmail.dat" from a post from "Michael
Berman."
|> ||
|> ||did anybody else?
|
|Don't blame Michael, actually: It sounds like a virus that sends itself out once
|you're infected with it.

Nahhh...
winmail.dat is something only windoze mailers send out.
(containing formatting/font/colour/other crap info that no-one really needs)

It must've either been badly configured, or, being mickymouse software,
probably just hiccupped...


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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |

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