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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: quick update #2 (Sprint continues to defend network terrorism)
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Barry Shein wrote: > Just got off the phone with Sprint Security again, they absolutely > refuse to stop the continuing (as of 15:40 EST Sat 1/4/97) mail > bombing / mail loop of world.std.com from iq-internet.com, about 1,000 > msgs today so far, well into the third full day of this. Please pardon a lurker for jumping in for a moment, but this whole thing seems blown out of proportion. Your message, sent about 4:00pm, said you received 1,000 messages so far in that day. 4:00pm is 16 hours, or 960 minutes into the day. So, on the average, you received one message a minute (correct?). Unless these are very large messages, it hardly seems worth the discussion here. I'm not even sure if falls into the category of "mail bombing" or "terrorism"; "mail loop" and "ignorance", perhaps... Peter -- Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager [email protected] Library Information Technologies http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio W:216-368-8989 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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