cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1997-05-19 - Re: Mail bombs from “helpful” Cypherpunks

Header Data

From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 97f1d150d3c83affb246c2ea3d81008b28396b9a16375c035025697bd492a69f
Message ID: <Fu9X7D41w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <v03007809afa575b7ce29@[207.167.93.63]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-05-19 13:17:33 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:17:33 +0800

Raw message

From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:17:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks
In-Reply-To: <v03007809afa575b7ce29@[207.167.93.63]>
Message-ID: <Fu9X7D41w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:

> (I was locked out of getting my mail tonight for more than an hour, when a
> member of the Cypherpunks list _mailed_ me a several-megabyte file without
> asking first. As I explain in my message to Steve Schear, I have no way of
> removing such "mail bombs" with my Eudora/POP system until they have been
> downloaded to my machine (I don't have a shell account anymore). I suppose
> by admitting this I am opening myself to being mailbombed by Dmitri V.,
> Vladimir N, and my other Russian (or ersatz Russian) enemies.)

Idiot - why would I want to do that?

Idiot - tell your POP client not to download files > certain size.

Idiot - get your shell account back.

---

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

Thread