Maybe sending him a few 10-megabyte attachments will help. His
provider will probably cut off his email service after the mailbox is
filled up.
For the time being I will put Rick in my kill-filter.
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:31:29 -0400 (EDT), Dan Lau
<dlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, it appears that Rick went on vacation and set his mailer to
>send out auto replies. For every message anyone on the list send
>out, Rick's mailer will send out one auto reply, which will be
>forwarded to Rick's mailer, which will send out another auto reply
>and so on and so on... Eventually all of our storage devices will
>be filled with Rick's auto replies. There was a Unix legend about
>these auto replies bringing down the "net" as it existed in the
>early '70s.
>
>So, should someone call Scott Smith or Roderick Lewis at
>1-800-517-7370 as Rick suggested and have them turn off the auto
>reply for Rick? Since this is an "urgent matter".
>
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