From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 16 19:27:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16456 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1563.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16445 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1563.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00291 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:17:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp1563.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:17:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Good Times Virus (not Fwd: :) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know, I know.... ;-) I have to say, though, reading yet another "forward this message to get $1000 from Bill Gates for testing my new email forward tracking program", that I really miss the Good Times virus. The poor cheap imitations I've been receiving lately tend to be boring, bland, and so obviously false. However, in my ardour against the beast, I seem to have failed to realize its genius and creativity, and never actually saved a copy of it... A quick check of the web revealed only a modernized copy (http://www-students.biola.edu/~dougw/GoodTimes/goodtimes.html), not the fresh pioneer-spirit warning I remember from the days of yore. Does anyone happen to have an older, sexier version hanging around? I think that the one cited really loses its magic as soon as it mentions America Online, in the first paragraph, of all places. I want one from before the days of AOL, from before the Internet was so large it needed to be mentioned almost every paragraph, from the days when an n-th complexity infinite binary loop actually melted your processor. :) Gosh, I'm only 18, but I feel so old. :-) OTOH, I think jkh mentioned once that he's been reading news since before I was born. That's scary. :) -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message