Re: ps () leds de and annoying bounces

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 6/19/07, ge () linuxbox org <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> I unsubscribed malformed@. Hopefully things will be quiet now on the
> bouncy front, at least here.
>
>         Gadi.


Nice sleuthing!

I was afraid this tactic could be used as a potential weapon of mass
annoyance aimed at public mailing list operators and their
contributors. Still this might not be a bad thing as one side effect
would be to eventually drive the troll community's mailboxen to grow
outside their mandated limits via ps () leds de bounces.

Another unintended benefit would be that the
lurkers would finally triumph in being recipients
of the least amount of noise on any list from a
statistical point of view. (mostly due to the fact
that contributors arent able to count their own
personal posts or successive flames as "noise".

In addition to citing prior art from the classic
bugtrack/outlook-out-of-office-auto-responder DDoS, future authors of
weapons of mass annoyance must remember to give credit where credit is
due: not only Symantec but also a n3td3v googlegroup.

-JP<who autoresponds with Hillary Clinton quotes to achieve the same effect>
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