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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <540@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 04:39:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 04:39:04 1986
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In article <1036@burl.UUCP>, rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) writes:
> There is a great way to bring any Unix system (that I know of, anyway) to
> its knees for quite some time (last time I did it it was almost 10 minutes)
> with a simple 4-5 line C program.  This works regardless of system load;
> the machine goes completely catatonic... 

A similar program already exists on *your* system, as you read this!
It's called "rnews", and the way it works is probably very similar to
that 5 line C program.
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John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa