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Re: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message i

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quantum)
Sun Oct 13 13:56:30 1996

Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quantum <quantum@obsidian.cse.fau.edu>
To: Tersian <tersian@leba.net>
cc: David Murray <dmurray@pdssoftware.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961013052154.23625A-100000@fig.leba.net>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu



On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Tersian wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Quantum wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > sorry.. but I cant help but feel that deleting someone's account because
> > they spammed a mailing list is a little too much.  The guy obviously
> > beleived it was impossible to trace and didnt consider this as a
> > conciquence.  Personally I would (and did) ignore it from day one.  How
> > hard is it to press d on a message.
> 
> Does this mean that if you were sent 1000 emails an hour by someone 
> faking them, based on the fact that they don't think they can get caught 
> and that they don't think they will lose thier account because of it, it 
> would be fine with you?
> 
> "how hard is it to press d on a message?"

as I said in a previous reply to a similar reply the guy obviously
beleived what he did was no big deal.. sending 1000 emails an hour is a
big deal.


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