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From: oscar@utcsrgv.UUCP (Oscar M. Nierstrasz)
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Subject: Wanted: message system anecdotes
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 16:56:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 16:56:03 1983
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There is a hoary old tale about two profs who went on summer
sabbatical and set their mailers to respond automatically to
all messages.  The net collapsed in a few days when it filled
with the messages they generated and sent to each other.
(This has been posted to the net many times.)

Does anybody have any *other* interesting anecdotes in this vein?
I would especially be interested in well-documented examples but
any good story will do.  Please respond by mail.  I will post an
article to net.followup if I get some good ones.  Thanks in advance.

(In case you're curious, this has to do with research into
anomolous behaviour of message systems.)

Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Toronto)
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