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From: learn@lafcol.UUCP (Dave Learn)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: True, just happened
Message-ID: <1143@lafcol.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 17:26:55 GMT
Organization: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma
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About a week ago, I was reading soc.religion.christian, and decided to
add my own two cents' worth of contribution.  I went through the
postnews routine, and ptried to post it.  The computer said,
"Soc.religion.christian is a moderated newsgroup, your article is being
forwarded to the moderator."  No problem.

A few days later, I logged on and found about 243 letters all saying
exactly the same things, "Soc.religion.chrisstian is moderated, please
mail your article directly to the moderator."  And a copy of my article
was enclosed.  I deleted them all, and eventually logged out.

The next day there were 300.  This kept going on, until yesterday, when
I had over 400 appear overnight.  I tried to erase them, but as fast as
I erased them, more came in, until finally, my mailer collapsed under
the load.  It ended up this mail (all of  it the same!) took up *one
megabyte* of disk space here at lafcol. 

The computer department here finally had to change my userid, because I
couldn't even access the stuff to erase it.  Turns out, the article
wasn't forwarded to the moderator, it was sent all around the worrld,
like a regular article, and every USENET site on the planet was telling
me I couldn't do that. 

Jeez -- one little article, and USENET goes to pieces...


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