I remember (but not details) a small number of email “storms” in the early days of lists and listserv.
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David P de Jongh Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Automatic reply: AUTO: Umberto Silvestri is prepared for DELETION (FREEZE) But very hard to imagine a scenario where everyone on this list could figure out how to exclude specific addresses from their OOTO rule. On 03/11/14, John Gilmore<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Mark Slater's is the first automatic reply to an automatiic reply that I can remember encountering. It would be easy to imagine a scenario in which such traffic grew exponentially. -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
