In a message of 16 Aug 97 Jay Hanig (1:379/41.5) wrote to Elvis Hargrove: 
 JH> Irregardless of the distasteful ramming this echo received this week,
 JH> the same argument could be made for banning this echo.  Obviously, one
 JH> of your readers did the ramming....should your echo be banned
 JH> accordingly?
 JH> You doubt it was one of your readers?  Where did the rammer get my
 JH> name (and yours, and everybody else involved here) if the miscreant
 JH> doesn't at least lurk here?  I don't defend the action of the rammer,
 JH> which annoyed me at least as much as you (since I downloaded 900+
 JH> messages to my father at long distance rates).  I do, however, resent
 JH> the broad tarring of the FLAME echo.
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 JH> Lastly, I couldn't help but notice that your name was listed on the
 JH> realname kludge of most or all of those messages.  What was your part
 JH> in this?  You must have done something to attract this.  Somebody went
 JH> to a lot of trouble to embarass you.
Jay,
I was as surprised as you were when I first received around 3000 pieces of 
this crap and the next day another close to 1000.
I manually deleted them one by one but kept a few for checks... when I look 
into the message-headers they all show origin 3.800.857.0 and that's not 
Elvis' place...
I believe you can stuff the complete contents of the Bible into this echo 
thru' the Internet if you want to.
Keen people with programming capabilities could reprogram a mail tosser and 
have it spitting out 1000 messages complete with fake adresses and fake 
senders even in random cycle... I did not check but I believe some of the 
messages were repeated 4 or 5 times.
You know about vandals who hijack your car and wreck it on the next joyride?
Sure you don't personally know them, and they don't know nothing about you 
but it sure was your car they picked!
Tho' I'm not the moderator here, I suggest we switch to netmail discussing 
this thread and stay on-topic for the echo itself  
Let's try to stay straight-&-level!
CU NeXT msg
Louis
LHFG:
Cheap way to boost your PC's speed: feed it 440 Volts...
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