Re: The future of the Email address, Part I (from Popco).

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:37:56 +0200

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>I listened to a 20 year-old college student who told me how,
>in less than 20 minutes, he could write a PERL script that would
>nearly destroy any email address he wanted to by sending a 100MB
>email message to it over and over automatically all day long.

If the sys-admin is around, them megs will go straight to /dev/null.
If he's away, it may not take that much. Once I accidentally had a
.forward loop which sent a 2Kb message to a server until it bit the
dust after 6000 of them i.e., only 12Mb.

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