[109357] in Cypherpunks
Re: mailbombing and anonymity -or- How I got the rude boys to stop hassling me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cecilie P Johansen)
Sat Mar 20 14:10:49 1999
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:47:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Cecilie P Johansen <isis@online.no>
To: Brenda Taylor <ratylor@accessunited.com>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <000701be7271$10561360$c43ae59b@rataylor>
Reply-To: Cecilie P Johansen <isis@online.no>
Mailbombing isnt just running some program, its an non-recognised
artformand it's performed thusly;
You send your victims messages, eloquently written and filled with an
abundance of maturity and wisdom, such as the one you wrote to us.
One message is quite sufficient, as the recipients will be tossed into a
permanent state of disbelief and bewilderment upon impact, and from then
on will find themselves unable to cause you any harm as you have
effectivly breached their sense of self-esteem.
Why this causes such a massive effect you ask?
It's actually quite simple, and a slight insight within psychology is all
you need to understand the art of mailbombing.
If we take into consideration the common notion that people prefer to
socialize with their peer, ie. people of similar traits and habits. Which,
afterall, isnt such an obscure statement, considering the egos of people
in these days, and throughout all days some would daringly claim,
then we could easily deduct that the crowd you associate yourself with,
and now wishes to mailbomb, are a bunch of exessive-exclamations-addicted,
LOL'ing AOLers. No 'fence to the one or two AOL-subscribing person out
there which doesnt fit this stereotype.
Now, establishing that the ones you so profoundly desire to mailbomb are,
in reality, rather similar to you, the next step is looking at what
would affect you.
Obviously you're the type of person who likes things simple and brief,
reflecting itself in your talent of getting straight to the point and not
mocking about which such pettiness as capitals and proper punctuation.
Also, we can easily spot some popular, ebonicish phrases, such as 'hook me
up', with its importance stressed by typing it in all capitals.
Which brings us to the point. The individuals you express such an honest
desire to bomb to smithereens, are, by deduction, the type of people who
write short, incomplete sentences filled with 'u r lame!!!!1' and its
equals.
Thus, sending them a lengthy, elaborate message, preferable containing a
huge amount of academic words and theories, will be such a shock to their
presumptions of the world that they will certainly enter a state of
bewilderment, and after they have recovered themselves, they will find
their previously indisputable beliefs shattered. Never will they
they be confident in what they know and percieve, rendering them unable to
trust their own judgement and ultimately be so deprieved of a stable
platform they'll commit suicide.
Rather successful mailbombing, dont you agrea?
Regarding the question on if this is permitted by a court of law, let me
assure you its perfectly legal, teachers, inparticularly
phsycis-professors, perform such actions frequently, but wether they
deliberatly intend these effects are debatable, and which I personally do
not wish to confirm nor deny.
Sincerely,
Cecilie P Johansen
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Brenda Taylor wrote:
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 20:29:13 -0500
> From: Brenda Taylor <ratylor@accessunited.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: mailbombing and anonymity
>
> how do you go about sending a mailbomb to some one.......is it against the law?????/??? i know nothing about it................HOOK ME UP!
>
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