Re: virus: Four Principles Digest

Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 2 Apr 1997 02:57:45 +0100


In message <c=US%a=_%p=brodietech.com%l=BIANCA-970331020654Z-
5@bianca.foo>, Richard Brodie <RBrodie@brodietech.com> writes
>David McF wrote:
>
>>It should be obvious to anyone who understands the second thing about
>>memetics that attempting to hide harmful memes is no way to fight them.
>
>What is your evidence to support this assertion? I'm interested, and it
>doesn't seem obvious to me. It's like saying that attempting to
>exterminate the smallpox virus is no way to fight it.
What about spreading benign strains of the smallpox virus so
that to allow imuninty systems to evolve?

Tony Hindle.