From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:21:46 BST
Subject:	A tactic against email nuisances

  Someone wrote:-
> A question to everybody interested in a low noise mailing list: should we
> consider to send to guys like him some megabytes of data to crash their mail
> system? (kind of lynching them for abusing the internet) T.H.

  I have heard of this being done already, when some nuisance idiot sends junk
advertizing email (`spamming') to thousands of email addresses that aren't in
any email group that he is in.

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