Please don't spam Santa Claus! (fwd)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Date: December 21, 2007 12:57:23 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Please don't spam Santa Claus! (fwd)

Hi -

I'm forwarding a 1994 Christmas message sent to the
IETF mailing list which you might find kind of
amusing.

And, just to prove that we haven't necessarily
learned our lesson, here is a pointer to this
year's Christmas podcast:

http://www.archive.org/details/org.resource.public.twas

Carl

From: Carl Malamud <carl () radio com>
Date: December 16, 1994 4:22:32 PM EST
To: ietf () CNRI Reston VA US
Subject: Please don't spam Santa Claus!


There is a very well-meaning denial of service attack currently
being conducted on the network.  The Internet Multicasting Service
is running a web site for Santa Claus (http://north.pole.org/)
that, among other things, has corporations "adopt" a local
charity.  Up to a maximum amount of money, the corporation gives
a dime to their charity for each web "hit" to the page.

A very well-meaning fool forgot about the maximum donation part
and didn't quite get the difference between email and WWW and
has sent out a massive spam message encouraging people to mailbomb
Santa Claus.

On behalf of Mr. Claus and the Elves, I'd like to say that mailbombs
to Santa will result in immediate removal of your name from the
"good" list and a transfer to the "bad" list.  Sending lots of
messages (one person sent 4205) is bad behavior, no matter how good
the reason may sound at first.   Please help us squash this nasty
rumor and allow us to get back to planning for Christmas.

Thanks for your assistance in circulating this message to any/all
lists that are carrying the original "Spam Santa" message.

Regards,

Carl Malamud
Elfmaster, North.Pole.Org





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