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From: A Halliwell <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Happy99.exe: Don't open it!
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:43:11 +0000
And verily, did Adam J hastily scribble thusly...
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|At 11:44 2/4/99 +0000, A Halliwell wrote:
|
|>Errrrr....
|>E-mail should *NOT* have access to the JVM. Java is for the WEB, and in
|>there, it is supposedly secure.
|>
|>If you have an e-mailer that auto activates Java applets, all I can say is
|>GET A PROPER MAILER!
|
|Spike.. If you'll notice the topic -- "Happy99.exe". Windows system. .exe =
|executable. In other words, attachments.

As I said later... Anyone who willingly and knowingly opens and EXECUTES an
attachment is going to get exactly what they deserve.

(BTW .exe is used in other systems as well as windross)

And he did say it was a java program in the original message... I think...

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| | 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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