Scott Granneman wrote: >On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:23 am, Robert Citek wrote: > > >>On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:30 AM, AgentM wrote: >> >> >>>Try it out and let us know how it goes! >>> >>> >>It would probably be uneventful, except that I would fill up my gmail >>accounts pretty quickly. So in that way, it's only a fork bomb for >>my own accounts and stops when they fill up. >> >> >> >>>Google mail runs beefy servers, so I imagine it would be a tiny >>>blip on the radar before you >>>fill up your X GB with junk. >>> >>> >>2.7 GB as of yesterday. The next question would be, how to get rid >>of all those e-mails? The only way I've seen to delete message is to >>mark them and then delete. Unfortunately, I don't see how marking >>messages can be automated. I have to go screen by screen. >> >>Anyone know of a better way? >> >> > >pop access to gmail. > >or use the gmail library someone developed, that jon udell writes about. >search for "jon udell gmail" > >scott > > The idea is a simple one. User has two accounts [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe is a very polite person and responses to his email as soon as they are received. He forwards all of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The simple loop he makes is now an email storm. For email administrators of large systems, this is an everyday problem. There are tools to help. Not having more than a paper level understanding of Exchange 5.5, I am not sure what the tools are.
From the OPUS1 site: http://www.opus1.com/o/software_storm_manual.html "1.1 Definitions" "An email "storm" is defined as multiple email messages, sent from a single source, over a very short period of time, into the backbone. A typical storm involves a single user on the Internet sending many copies of a single message to a single recipient." "An email "bomb" is defined as a very large email message, typically in the multi-megabyte range." "1.2 A Note on Capabilities" "The concepts of "sender" and "recipient" in Internet email are technically quite vague. When a person sends an email message to another person, at least three levels of "sender" are involved: 1. The actual person who sent the message, normally identified by the "From:" field in the message header. 2. The corporate or organizational email system sending the message, which may be spread over multiple physical systems. 3. The actual physical system which is responsible for carrying on the RFC-821 dialogue." -- Jerry Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
