RE: virus: getting it / ICQ list

Chelstad, Erik (chelste@data-io.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:12:18 -0800


I don't think that analogy works so well..........

(Unless, of course, you consider properly sanctioned gossip as
conversation)
> ----------
> From: Joe E. Dees[SMTP:jdees0@students.uwf.edu]
> Reply To: virus@lucifer.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 11:34 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: getting it / ICQ list
>
> > 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.
>