Several years a company I worked at saw their e-mail system get hit with a similar (non-)attack. An executive went on vacation and set the "out-of-office" reply to respond to "reply-all". Couple that with a few more people out of the office, and it did not take long to bring the company's network to a complete standstill. Took the e-mail admins most of the day to purge inboxes and disable e-mail accounts. Then got the CIO to send a memo about how to use out of office e-mail functions.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:55:59 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 23:02 -0400 on 10/04/2007, Ed Finnell wrote about Check out E-Mail >Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News: > >>_E-Mail Problem Creates Message Flood - AOL News_ >>(http://news.aol.com/story/_a/e-mail-problem-creates-message-flood/20071004120009990001?ncid=NWS000100000 >>00001) >> >>Sometimes you just have to hang your head and laugh.... > >Although the article does not explain what went wrong (just that he >tried to send a reply) I'd guess that the original message was sent >with the FROM (or SENDER) set to the list address not to a List >Administrator address. Thus any reply would go to the list for >echoing to all the subscribers. In addition, the list would seem to >be of an Announce-Only type where only the Administrator should be >able to submit but seems to allow anyone to submit (a bad idea for >that type of list given its purpose). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
