Dear Netters, I found an article from November 1994 about what happens every time a virus letter is circulated. The article is in Science & Vie, no. 926. p. 7 and is titled Le virus de "Saint-Antoine" infecte deja Internet. It is estimated that a single letter modelled on the chain letters with 20 copies produces 3,200,000 letters on the Internet in very short schrift. Viruses do not travel on email. The disease is the letter itself according to the article which consumes bandwidth satsfying the desire of the sender. The same implications of guilt as the chain letter accompany the virus letter asssuring its spread. Since this list represents the broadest spectrum of the Internet it seemed the best place to stop the letters which indeed are the sum of the virus. -- Paul. -- Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio, University of Toronto [log in to unmask]