[4156] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: slightly off topic, but nice thought
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Gostl)
Tue Jan 28 19:52:26 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:36:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jack Gostl <gostl@argoscomp.com>
To: Andy Walden <andy@netimagination.com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32EE0960.558A@netimagination.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Andy Walden wrote:
> Scott Moseman wrote:
> >
> > >Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me
> > >off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this
> > >dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb
> > >list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!Take me off this dumb
> > >list!!!!!Take me off this dumb list!!!!!
> >
The right way to handle this is for everyone who gets one of these to
forward it to Postmaster@eye-on.co.il and let him/her explain to bracha
about netiquette. After receiving a few hundred of these messages, I
suspect that someone will get the message to this woman. Unfortunately(?) I
deleted all of the messages before I thought of that.
>
> I see this is an NT box which I'm not terribly familiar with. But upon
> fingering our friend here this was the response.
>
> vision:~> finger bracha@eye-on.co.il
> [eye-on.co.il]
> User: bracha
> Read: 0
> Unread: 20686
> Time: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:16:08 +0200
> vision:~>
>
> My first thought was the unread figure was in bytes, then I decided
> against that cause I sent at least that myself. It is either in megs or
> the actual number of messages!?!?!
>
> Anyone know for sure?
>
> -andy
>
Jack Gostl gostl@argoscomp.com
