Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!tewok From: tewok@umcp-cs.UUCP (Wayne Morrison) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: requests Message-ID: <992@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 14:24:13 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.992 Posted: Thu Apr 17 14:24:13 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 14:17:11 EST References: <49@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: tewok@maryland.UUCP (Wayne Morrison) Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci. Lines: 32 In article <49@brl-smoke.ARPA> mlaufer@bbncct.arpa (Michael Laufer) writes: >>From: Bruce Brolsma > >>> Message-ID: <12198824179.25.JNC@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> >>> ...we should punish the offendors so horribly that word of what >>> happens to you when you do this will become instant network folklore. >>> I used to send such pinheads a few megabytes of mail manually, but >>> maybe a tool that sends them 253 copies of SF-LOVERS every hour for >>> three weeks is the right thing. > >>Each netmailer need make such mistakes only once or twice if, in reply, they >>received a canned tutorial on the constituate parts of netdom, pathnames, >>list-of-lists, requests, etc., etc. I've not seen such a summary available >>for distribution, but I'd sure like to see one. > Forgive me my ignorance and bad memory, but what exactly did this guy do? I remember getting it, but I don't remember his original mail. Could someone please tell me what has angered someone so much, please? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I love the feel of plastic. It makes me hot!!!" - T. J. Tarou Wayne Morrison ARPA: tewok@brillig Parallel Computation Lab UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!tewok University of Maryland (301)454-7690