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From: Chris Torek <chris@mimsy.umd.edu>
To: phage
Date: Sat 21:43:59 05/11/1988 EST
Subject: Re: Steps in the virus, as best we know them (and fixes)
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`pleasequit' works only if nwords>10; what `nwords' is is yet to be
determined.  The telnet connection, however, is simply part of a
sequence that turns your local host address into the canonical form
for another host, and not an attempt to use yet another bug.

Chris (still decompiling)

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