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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

3574.0. "E-Mail Bombs?" by MIMS::GRAFT_J () Tue Dec 13 1994 20:24

    Are we now sending E-Mail bombs?
    
    Jim
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3574.1AXEL::FOLEYRebel without a ClueTue Dec 13 1994 20:335

	I used too a long time ago before VAXmail was fixed.

							mike
3574.2KLAP::porterkeep reading and no-one gets hurt!Tue Dec 13 1994 22:123
My email bombs quite a lot.  Maybe I'll fix the
bugs one day.

3574.3Getting it straightGLDOA::WERNERWed Dec 14 1994 16:432
    I'll just stick to FLAMES in the notes file.
    ;^)			-OFWAMI-
3574.4an email bomb can blow up ALL-IN-ONE?WRKSYS::SEILERLarry SeilerMon Jan 30 1995 18:266
    I was once accused of sending an email bomb.  I used a very long
    subject line and it broke the recipient's ALL-IN-ONE mail reader.
    He reported it to my personnel rep (he was already mad at me).
    
    	Regards,
    	Larry
3574.5wrong product....FIREBL::LEEDSFrom VAXinated to AlphaholicMon Jan 30 1995 18:4811
>    I was once accused of sending an email bomb.  I used a very long
>    subject line and it broke the recipient's ALL-IN-ONE mail reader.


That's his problem.... he should have been using "ALL-IN-1", not 
"ALL-IN-ONE"  ..... 

ALL-IN-ONE is a banking program from Bank One ... ALL-IN-1 is our office 
automation product.....


3574.6ReliablyDECCXX::AMARTINAlan H. MartinMon Jan 30 1995 19:112
My workstation session crashes if I read PostScript mail from my supervisor.
				/AHM
3574.7BSS::C_BOUTCHERMon Jan 30 1995 19:308
    We used to send e-mail messages to users with VT100's with certain
    control characters that would put the terminal into recycled power fail
    testing.  The only way to reset the terminal was power off- then back
    on - otherwise it would continue to cycle through putting a test
    pattern on the screen, then power fail reset.  In those days folks
    could more readily take a joke.  I'd not try it now a days.
    
    Chuck
3574.8that was back in VAX/VMS V3.n something...HNDYMN::MCCARTHYDisabled Service ButtonTue Jan 31 1995 08:419
>>    could more readily take a joke.  I'd not try it now a days.

VAX-Mail has been updated to not send non-printable characters to the screen
when you read the mail from within the Mail utility.  

The trojan horses come in as "VT art" and say "enter extrac tt: to see the
train go around the christmas tree".

bjm
3574.9ICS::BEANAttila the Hun was a LIBERAL!Tue Jan 31 1995 11:267
    there was a time that we sent e-mail which would cause the character
    set to be replaced with a "home brew" set.  Everything was printed in
    reverse (as in the individual characters were mirror images)
    
    now THOSE were the good ol' dayz   ;^}
    
    
3574.10We had fun at HP too!OOYES::OCONNELLA tall scope & a star to steer her byTue Jan 31 1995 13:264
    At HP we used to mess with the user id in memory table, changing user
    names, etc to amuse the masses.  When I came to Digital -- no PRIVS!
    
    Mike
3574.11More backwards textDPDMAI::HARDMANSucker for what the cowgirls do...Wed Feb 01 1995 02:259
    Wow, .9 brought back memories from way back when... In the early 80's I
    worked at the Hudson, Mass chip plant. While one of the other techs was
    on vacation, a couple of us took his VT100 apart and rewired the yoke
    on the CRT. It then scanned from right to left, instead of left to
    right and wrote everything on the screen backwards. The look on the
    guys face when he logged in the first time was priceless!!! :-)
    
    Harry
    
3574.12rotated textCSEXP2::MORICKFri Feb 03 1995 04:523
    We had a program that routed the text on the screen 90 degree and 
    convinced our secretary that the Digital ECO was to rotate the
    monitor 90 degrees to fix it until a proper fixed was made.
3574.13LJSRV2::KALIKOWDuke of URL: `TCL my GUI!!' :-) Fri Feb 03 1995 06:306
    Reminds me of the time early on an April Fool's Day morning when a
    friend & I sneaked into my VP's office and jiggered his shiny new
    Macintosh such that it made a rude (and different) noise for every time
    he pressed a key or clicked the mouse...  Trouble was, he knew
    *exactly* whose office to saunter casually over to & accuse... :-)