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I wonder if surviving Usenet Septembers prior to the Endless September conferred some immunity on the survivors?
by dsr_ 10y ago
I wonder if surviving Usenet Septembers prior to the Endless September conferred some immunity on the survivors?
- Animats 10y agoI used to see this back when I had a catchall email address on a .com domain which was the same as a domain for a school in .uk. Every September, I'd get misaddressed student emails. I'd send them back a note, and they'd stop. By October the new students had figured out their domain name and the problem stopped. Once, though, I got a message "I am going to kill you tonight", addressed from one student to another. Ignore, reply, report to UK law enforcement? I got the headmistress of the school on the phone, in the middle of the night in the UK. After about a minute of confusion, she told me that the sender was 12 years old and the problem would be dealt with. If that had had happened in the US, it probably would have involved a SWAT team.