Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Fool Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 14:13:21 GMT References: <8313@gollum.twg.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 14 david@twg.com writes: This recent flap over DDMI.COM... A death-threat was made -- a shell script (less than 20 lines) was written which, if installed at an active & well-connected site, would effectively kill off any attempt by that site to make any postings. It's 28 lines; 18 of it is the ed(1) stuff to turn a posting into a cancellation of itself. The rest is framework for deciding whether to cancel and so forth. But the script was largely an exercise, and the suggestion was never intended to be taken nearly as seriously as it was. Nor did I make the original threat; I just created an implementation of the threat.