Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 18:35:48 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: World wide email project, please help. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010502182806.046ac670@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3AF03D60.15FFEDBC@dobox.com>
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At 11:01 AM 5/2/2001, Wes Peters wrote: >This is a real project, not a hoax. Many chain letters that were not intended to be circulated in perpetuity have gotten out of control. They've continued to make the rounds for years afterward, consuming bandwidth and making sysadmins miserable. (See http://urbanlegends.about.com/.) To start another is very ill-advised, since the problem may recur even if an explicit time limit is given in the message. (Time limits stated in such messages are often buried deep within the text or truncated during retransmission.) Perhaps the teacher in question should have set a better example by researching this, and learning about some other messages that have run amok, before suggesting it as a class project. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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