Re: Info on 'Melissa' ?

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From: Andrew Brydon
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00

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Once upon a time,  Chris Kennington <News$@inf-eden.demon.co.uk> wrote
>Re Melissa:
>
>    Thanks to all posters.  Obviously only a real problem with sites
> who send their mail immediately.  I would certainly notice if opening
> a doc spawned 50 e-mails!

Not necessarily - particularly if the message was read whilst still
online, or worse, on a (e.g. company or campus) network with permanent
Internet connection...

>    When various commercial sites had to close their e-mail, was it
> a case of ping-pong?  If two sites both had each other in the first
> 50, I can see a lot of traffic being generated ......

I can imagine friends emailing friends and back-again VERY quickly
becoming a problem...
-- 
Andrew Brydon
Life is just the beta-version of death

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Date: 1999/04/13
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