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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SEX!  or, how do I mail to a lot of unix users?
Message-ID: <4409@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 90 14:20:00 GMT
References: <900531083151.30e0b91a@Csa2.LBL.Gov> <3198@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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In article <3198@sactoh0.UUCP> jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
>In article <900531083151.30e0b91a@Csa2.LBL.Gov> thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV writes:
>>I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on
>>a unix machine.  Of course, I could do it the long way, that is,
>>do a 'finger' or 'who', thus getting a list of all the users, and
>>then sending a mail message to each, one at a time.  Is there a
..deleted

This idea seems like just another way to create junk mail akin to
the COWABUNGA bullshit that is happening around the net now.  It
would seem a politer way to do this would be to mail to
postmaster@machine and then the postmaster could handle
distribution.

The idea of bulk-mailing on the internet makes Morris's worm seem
benign.
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