Kai MacTane writes:
> Text written by John Conover at 05:48 PM 3/30/99 -0000:
>
> >BTW, I put the address of the sender of the attachment in the warning,
> >since procmail's formail will extract such stuff, and a statement that
> >if you don't know this person, don't click.
>
> But part of the point (and the evil) of Melissa is that you *do* know the
> person. It sends itself to folks that it finds at the top of someone's
> Outlook address book -- presumably, folks they correspond with on some
> basis or another.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Kai MacTane
> System Administrator
> Online Partners.com, Inc.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
>
> house wizard /n./
>
> A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position
> at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influ-
> ence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not
> have to wear a suit.
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