krvw@cert.sei.cmu.edu (Kenneth R. van Wyk) (07/31/90)
A long time ago,
from a computer far far away,
VIRUS-L was unmoderated and undigested.
Sorry... Bad attempt at humor. Anyway, as I was saying, V-L existed
in a very different form from the day that it was started (April 22,
1988) until shortly after the Internet worm of November 1988.
Previously, all of the pre-digest traffic has been available on both
Lehigh's LISTSERV machine (LEHIIBM1 from BITNET or IBM1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU
from Internet) and the CERT ftp machine (cert.sei.cmu.edu) in the form
of weekly logs. Anthony Appleyard,
XPUM04@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk, has graciously (and
painstakingly) compiled these weekly logs into digests. The digests
make up volume 0 and are now available for anonymous FTP on
cert.sei.cmu.edu in the pub/virus-l/archives/predig.digested
directory. The information in volume 0 is somewhat dated, of course,
but can provide some interesting insight into current virus events
(and perhaps a laugh or two - things have changed a bit...).
Also included in all of this is an index to volume 0. That, too, is
on the CERT anonymous FTP machine, in the pub/virus-l/archives
directory.
A wholehearted thanks to Anthony for his effort on putting together
all of this traffic!
Cheers,
Ken van Wyk