The Internet Virus--A Commentary

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1988Nov9.200939.6069 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <698 at packard.UUCP> shz at packard.UUCP writes:
|>Just a minor correction:  Substitute "staff" for each occurrence of "man"
|>in the below fragment, yielding "staff-hours", "staff-weeks" and
|>"staff-years".
|
|From a handy dictionary:
|
|"man, n. [pl. men]  1, a mammal of the genus Homo.  2, a person; a human
|being.  3, the human race; mankind..."
|
|If they have non-human staff, then I can see the legitimacy of the objection!

Henry - [ and others ]

I suspect the complaint was that not only were individuals involved [ and
hence 'man-hours' ] but entire EDP staffs where tied up with the Internet
virus.

I will be very seriously pissed of if Wormer gets off with no jail time.
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