<story><title>A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)</title><url>https://misc.l3m.in/txt/spam.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12951917&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12951917&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DonHopkins on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The NHS&amp;#x27;s 1.2M employees are trapped in a &amp;#x27;reply-a...&lt;p&gt;Back in the days of ARPANET mailing lists, there used to be an &amp;quot;educational&amp;quot; mailing list called &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot;, that was for people who asked an entire mailing list to remove them, instead of removing themselves, or sending email to the administrative &amp;quot;-request&amp;quot; address.&lt;p&gt;So when somebody asked an entire mailing list to remove them, somebody else would add them to the &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot; mailing list, and they would start getting hundreds of &amp;quot;please remove me&amp;quot; requests from other people, so they could discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests, without bothering people on mailing lists whose topics weren&amp;#x27;t about being removed from mailing lists.&lt;p&gt;It worked so well that it was a victim of its own success: Eventually the &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot; mailing list was so popular that it got too big and had to be shut down...&lt;p&gt;...Then there was Jordan Hubbard&amp;#x27;s infamous &amp;quot;rwall incident&amp;quot; in 1987:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;everything2.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Jordan+K.+Hubbard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;everything2.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Jordan+K.+Hubbard&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>molticrystal</author><text>In more modern times, within the last couple months, there was the Epic&amp;#x2F;Unreal Engine Github Email Storm[0][1] at minium 60m emails, because a few hundred thousand people were getting over a hundred emails within a minute or so thanks to a user trying to get a minor patch pulled in so they could get some credit&amp;#x2F;resume line&amp;#x2F;who knows.  They &amp;quot;@&amp;quot;tted the whole membership of the organization.  There was a few repeats of the occurrence immediately afterwards as well by some trolls.&lt;p&gt;A fun aside is the article on wikipedia [1] begins with Jordan Hubbard and ends with Epic:&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linustechtips.com&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;1435395-epic-games-github-email-storm-~60-mil-emails-sent-mini-tech-news&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linustechtips.com&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;1435395-epic-games-github-em...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31627061&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31627061&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Email_storm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Email_storm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)</title><url>https://misc.l3m.in/txt/spam.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12951917&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12951917&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DonHopkins on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The NHS&amp;#x27;s 1.2M employees are trapped in a &amp;#x27;reply-a...&lt;p&gt;Back in the days of ARPANET mailing lists, there used to be an &amp;quot;educational&amp;quot; mailing list called &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot;, that was for people who asked an entire mailing list to remove them, instead of removing themselves, or sending email to the administrative &amp;quot;-request&amp;quot; address.&lt;p&gt;So when somebody asked an entire mailing list to remove them, somebody else would add them to the &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot; mailing list, and they would start getting hundreds of &amp;quot;please remove me&amp;quot; requests from other people, so they could discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests, without bothering people on mailing lists whose topics weren&amp;#x27;t about being removed from mailing lists.&lt;p&gt;It worked so well that it was a victim of its own success: Eventually the &amp;quot;please-remove-me&amp;quot; mailing list was so popular that it got too big and had to be shut down...&lt;p&gt;...Then there was Jordan Hubbard&amp;#x27;s infamous &amp;quot;rwall incident&amp;quot; in 1987:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;everything2.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Jordan+K.+Hubbard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;everything2.com&amp;#x2F;title&amp;#x2F;Jordan+K.+Hubbard&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temp0826</author><text>Something similar happened (multiple times?) when I worked at AWS when someone decided to send a mass email to literally the entire company and people inevitably reply-all enough to clog the system and bring it to its knees. Many confused people were replying &amp;quot;UNSUBSCRIBE&amp;quot; (again, to the whole company) as if it would take them off</text></comment>