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In article <1992Oct06.203204.2272@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.132329.12271@Gwinnett.COM> todd@Gwinnett.COM (Todd Reese) writes:
>>I don't think that I or anybody up the ladder of connection sites should
>>have been climbed on for Abacus' error. A simple note to me to alert of the 
>>problem would have been a better first step.  BTW,  I stopped the problem 
>>as soon as I found out about it.  There were many email's left to go out, 
>>not any more.
>
>While I did report that people over-reacted, I did not excuse a blind
>E-mailing of this type, which seemed to have no direction.  Your message
>indicates it wasn't you who did it.   How did it get done?  Who actually
>thought that mailing to random E-mail collected from the net was a good
>idea?  Does the person still work there?

They(Abacus) were quite agressive to broadcast across the net before learning
about the net itself.  I explained to them the net and how to use it, of
course, this did not sink in.  They purchased acounts both on this machine
and a domain to their dos box in Florida.  The account here was for them
to scan the USENET newsgroups to see what is in there.  They set up an
alias for smail and scaned in the address from the news spool.  The rest
is history.  Best I could tell, only 2500 messages went out, I caught about
13000 still in the que.  All this was done from Abacus in Florida.  Anything
that they do now from my machine will have to go through me first.

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