From: filbo@armory.com
Subject: Re: hello, anybody there?

Jeff Keller carried it [to UC Santa Cruz] from MIT [in 1989],
but I think he said that MIT
legend was that it had arrived there from somewhere around Georgia
[actually NJ -- below].
It may be impossible to trace authoritatively.  Jeff says that at MIT it
never evolved to the extent it has locally; took a bad turn at some
point with people trying to make a drinking/bonging game out of it,
which was not in the cards (so to speak), and died out.

Maybe Jeff can fill in more of the folklore.
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 23:15:48 -0800
From: John Bigboute <keller@cse.ucsc.edu>
To: filbo@armory.com, ian@cse.ucsc.edu
Subject: Re: hello, anybody there?
Cc: mauists@armory.com, nmcvaugh@ecclab.med.utah.edu, pocock@math.utah.edu

Actually, the infection was transmitted to MIT by a New Jersey native.
Once there, it flourished for a year or two before immunities began to
develop.  Before it died, however, it was carried to UCSC, where it
rapidly mutated into a more virulant form that survives largely unchanged
to this day.  Perhaps the rules should be posted to some newsgroup...