Re: UKNM: Latency

[kevin moss]

This rang bells too. Though my memory is pretty sketch, bookmarks are great

things :)



http://kumite.com/myths/myths/myth023.htm



>James Tarin wrote:

>Mmmmm...I seem to remember a good story about this one once.  The

>Interactive guy at a book publisher was creating an e-mail marketing

>campaign for an interactive novel online (something about a Russian

>Astronaut being killed and his daughter contacting you for information,

>leading you onto an interactive novel adventure played over a period of

>time).  Anyway, despite my lack of memory (answers on a postcard to the

>normal address for reasons why my memory is so bad pls.), they created a

>spoof of the good times virus telling individuals to go to the site

>where the novel was.

>

>What I do remember clearly was all hell broke loose as the large

>organisations sent out major virus alerts, Dr Solomans got on the case

>etc., and when said book publisher  realised that they had thrown areas

>of the Net into panic, they sent out another e-mail telling users it was

>a spoof, and had the Net community turn on them with <Samuel Jackson

>style> furious thunder....</Samuel Jackson style>.

>

>So I think that e-mail 'virus' ideas could be misinterpreted, but I

>would love to know if anyone can remember any details from this sketchy

>episode of about three years back.....

>

>Ross



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