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Re: Electronic Harassment

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From: George W. Leach
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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Subject: Re: Electronic Harassment
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Date: 31 Jan 91 19:03:28 GMT
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