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Article #304Re: Electronic Harassment
From: George W. Leach
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:03
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:03
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Several years ago, a coworker became annoyed at his being included on a list of people to whom certain project-related information was mailed. This person probably did request that I not include him on the mailing list, however I forgot to remove him immediately. He took offense to it and decided to use a loop to continuously send me a copy of the most recent mail message that I had sent to him. The end result was that we ran out of disk space and could not delete the messages fast enough (rather reminds of the internet worm problem). The actions of this individual dissabled our primary development machine for a while causing approximately 60 people some grief. He did not realize the extent to which his actions would cause problems. George W. Leach
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!limbo!taylor From: reggie@paradyne.com (George W. Leach) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Electronic Harassment Message-ID: <1698@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 31 Jan 91 19:03:28 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: AT&T Suncoast Division, Largo FL Lines: 13 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com