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.
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Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio,  University of Toronto  [log in to unmask]