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josh@lummox.hartley.reshall.columbia.edu
- To: josh@lummox.hartley.reshall.columbia.edu
- Subject: josh@lummox.hartley.reshall.columbia.edu
- From: Carl Malamud <carl>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 09:34:42 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: alan@columbia.edu, fuat@columbia.edu, howie@columbia.edu, mt@columbia.edu, al@lummox.hartley.reshall.columbia.edu
- Organization: Internet Multicasting Service
Your user, Joshua Grossman, has sent approximately 6500 mail messages to santa@north.pole.org. A rumor was started on the network encouraging people to write to santa@north.pole.org. This false rumor said that this was a charity drive and encouraged people to write in.
Most people sent in one or two messages. A few people sent several hundred or even a thousand. Mr. Joshua Grossman decided that this was an opportunity to use his computer as a weapon and bombard us with as many messages as possible.
In most cases, we consider this to be a well-meaning denial of service attack, but in the case of Mr. Grossman we can think of no circumstance in which a mail bomb of that size is justified. We're particularly disturbed to learn that Mr. Grossman works for NBC. My group is a small non-profit corporation trying to make our way on the Internet as real media. Mr. Grossman apparently doesn't value our work and seems to feel his actions will make a difference. The main difference Mr. Grossman has made so far is to prevent thousands of letters from little boys and girls from reaching the top of our queue.
I really hope that NBC and Columbia will take appropriate actions on this matter.
Carl Malamud Internet Multicasting Service
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