Re: nastygram from xxx.lanl.gov

Aaron Nabil (nabil@teleport.com)
Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:08:52 -0700 (PDT)

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Wiebe Weikamp writes...
> You (Aaron Nabil) wrote :
> > I just got a nastygram from the web admin at xxx.lanl.gov accusing
> > my "robot" of "attacking" him.
>
> welcome to the club...
>
> When I was testing my robot, I had it randomly pick some urls to see if it
> would work on different kind of servers. So, probably xx.gov got in the list
> and when I returned the following morning I had 2 messages for each
> requested URL (HEAD or GET), one to wiebe@ and one to webmaster@. Turned out
> they also sent mail to root@ and everybody logged on at that time (which was
> at night, so one poor student was flamed...).

The webmaster at xxx.lanl.gov sent email to root, the postmaster, the
guy who had the misfortune of putting his email address on our home
page, and our customer support email address.

Only address he didn't flame WAS THE ONE IN THE 'FROM' HEADER!

-a

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