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Pastimes : IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kinkblot who wrote (433)	4/24/2003 8:46:56 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 480

With emails-- wouldn't the control be if those were sent individually rather than broadcast-- one to many? So it depends on the information to send. The computer virus depends on broadcast rather than individual -- if individual, it could be quickly traced. The information for a specific destination relies on individual communication to continue hopefully to someone thought "who knows" or better deducts the fragment of information who will then get it to the final destination and hopefully within the sixth contact. Of interest about SARS:(which would be similar to the computer virus -- one to many) news.independent.co.uk (from the SI SARS board) Any more exceptions? Doctors have identified a few individuals among the thousands of victims whom they have called "super spreaders". These are people who appear to have infected scores of others, triggering outbreaks in different parts of the world. It is not known why they are so infectious – possibly because they shed large amounts of the virus or carry a particularly virulent form of it.