Subject: OFF TOPIC!!!!! Virus HOAX!!
Date: Sep 17 11:58:16 1999
From: M. Wagenbach - wagen at u.washington.edu


A couple of points:
1. Virus warnings are NOT birding related, and should not be posted.
2. Most virus warnings are hoaxes.

Please read the sites from Big Blue and your friendly federal government
on this subject:
http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Any virus warning you receive, unless from a professional anti-virus
service such as Dr. Soloman's, should be screened by consulting
these sites.

Why not forward this message (privately) to everyone you know? Help
reduce NetHysteria!

Sheepishly posting off-topic,
Mike Wagenbach
wagenATuDOTwashingtonDOTedu
Seattle