🚀 go-pugleaf

While we've all known the value of electronic mail and communications
for a while, it's remained a somewhat new technology, with the down
side limited to the occasional unprovoked hostile message.  Clearly,
though, that can't remain, and here's a note that crossed my mailbox
(with information changed as needed) indicating the kind of problem
that we should expect in the future:

> From: Someone at a University in the United States
> To: Usenet Newsgroup Moderators
> Date: Wed Jan 30 09:58:50 PST 1991
> 
> I have lately been the victim of electronic harassment.  A person at 
> <organization> has been busily subscribing my account to _hundreds_
> of mailing lists.  I have been getting yours as a result of that.

Filling a persons mailbox is a "classic" problem in harassment cases 
out of the computer context, and it seems like as our technology 
grows in popularity, it picks up the negative as well as the positive
of the society and culture it exists within.  Most unfortunate.

Dave Taylor