Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!udccvax1!chiefdan From: chiefdan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Daniel Paul Roth) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Braindamaged test messages clogging the net Message-ID: <1242@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 16:23:33 GMT References: <255@comdesign.UUCP> <1218@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <22716@pyramid.pyramid.com> <3266@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu><3757@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: chiefdan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Chief Dan) Organization: The Lab Rats Lines: 38 In article <3757@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >> Being one of the recipients, I suggest that we coerce the sysadmins to >> remove these user's accounts, and if they refuse, pull up all links to >> their machines. >> I show that udccpyr1 is not at a backbone site, and I don't even have >> a map entry for comdesign, so I don't know what their situation. >> For their little "trick" I think this punishment is fitting. >Perhaps you should wait for some reasonable summary of the facts before >passing sentence. Are you sure these agents of chaos deliberatly set >out to create a net.catastrophe? I'd assume the people at Delaware and >this comdesign place can take care of any neccessary wrist slapping >without a bunch of threats... Hello! This is the moron who created the "MISC.TEST DIGEST". (From a different account which I now find myself unable to log into.) My apologies to all those who this cause trouble for. I was not in any way trying to cause any havoc! I did not realize what trouble this message would cause. Please... 1) Realize our administrators had nothing to do with it! 2) Know that I didn't know about all these programs which mail replies back. 3) Accept the above apology. There's no need to suggest "punishing" our site. It was purely my ignorance regarding the net which led to this problem -- nothing malicious on my part and certainly nothing for which anyone besides myself is responsible. As soon as I was informed by the first piece of e-mail I received of my netiquette violation, I did what I could to repair the situation (which was obviously an exercise in futility) and issued a kill statement. Once again my apologies, and I believe I'd best send mail with our administrators, who I believe may wish to speak with me.