Actually, this story sort of reminds me of my college days, when I helped to take down the mail system for a couple of days... ;)
I have this one friend who decided, for some reason, to setup a rule on his email account that any emails he receives from me is to be forwarded back to me ten times. So, whenever I send him an email, I get ten copies of it back.
So instead of simply deleting these emails, I figured I'd get even, and setup a similar rule. So, whenever he sent me an email, I'd send ten copies back to him.
Well, it doesn't take a genius to guess what happened next... :)
The entire mail server was swamped, and got shut down for 2-3 days! My email account, and my friend's, both had to be deleted, then rebuilt, and we were both told what we had unintentionally done, and to not do that again. I think there must have been around a million emails in there by the time the server got shut down... :)
Alan Lafond
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