Let me rephrase that... You can't do it in such a way as to infect a
person's computer automaticaly, it would have to be an attachment. So you
just don't run the attachment. Also you can't write a platform

independent

Well... not quite true.  CNN reported about a month ago that there is the
POTENTIAL (though no actual cases) of such a virus existing in some old
e-mail programs (Microsoft came out with a patch to fix this in Outlook) by
writing 500 characters in the subject line and then the source code
afterwards (something about problems with buffers)...  Like I said, though,
this was a bug that was just discovered VERY recently, and apparently is
only known to be a problem (though there is the potential for the problem
to exist in other programs- Eudora, for instance, had yet to test theirs at
the time of the report) in Microsoft Outlook and Netscape Mail...

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