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Subject: Re: MailBomb
In-Reply-To: <19970423123458.08309@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Apr 23, 97 12:34:58 pm"
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 1997 at 01:01:54AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >     Does anybody know how to make a good mailbomb? I want to know how 
> > > this thing really works!!!
> > 
> > Yeah, it's really easy.  You just post a truly stupid message to some
> > large mailing list, say one belonging to the FreeBSD Project, saying
> > "hey, does anyone know how to make a good mailbomb?"
> > 
> > You'll probably get several in response, thus showing you exactly how
> > to do it by direct example!
> > 
> > 					Jordan
> > 
> > P.S. For the next stage in your education travel to Sri Lanka, find a
> > group of Tamil rebels lounging around with their assault rifles and
> > yell: "Hey, do any of you idiots actually know how to shoot those
> > things?"
> > 
> > It's basically the same question as this one, just on a bigger
> > scale. ;-)
> 
> freebsd-hackers seems to evolve to a trapdoor or fleatrap for evil planning
> minds in the Internet. Maybe we should cc: www.fbi.gov ? :->
> 
> 

Anyone been on the newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack? It gets one of
these every few weeks. I think they changed the name from rec.games.hack as
then they got one every couple of days. (Hack was an old version of Nethack)