At 10:38 AM -0500 10/12/99, Steve Bergeon wrote:
> If I provide a service like majordomo lists and a thousand
> people sign up in a short period of time and it breaks, is
> that the fault of the thousand users?
That's my fault.
> But if it's an
> individual signing up for all of my thousand lists and it
> breaks, is it the fault of that one user?
>
> A malicious attack of millions of mail is one thing, but my
> confusion stems from what I thought was acceptable use of
> a public service.
that's the problem -- what you consider an acceptable use might not
match that of the listserver owner. Which is why I suggested, gasp,
that you should ask first. Because the owner might not want to
participate in your test, or might misinterpret the action as
something else. which is, of course, exactly what happened.
What's so hard about asking first before experimenting with someone
else's system?
shrug
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