Re: virus: getting it / ICQ list

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 06:34:36 +0000


> From: Sendgirl@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:18:05 EDT
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: getting it / ICQ list
> Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com

>
> In a message dated 6/12/98 12:16:51 AM, jab13@cornell.edu writes:
>
> >An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to
> >replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is
> >memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.)
>
>
> hmm......gossip :-)

Gossip is like sex; we're shyer about admitting to it than we
are about doing it.