You could argue that, but I wouldn't believe you. Someone could simply decide to be annoying, like kids throwing eggs at houses. There is nothing "in it for t

You could argue that, but I wouldn't believe you. Someone could simply decide to be annoying, like kids throwing eggs at houses. There is nothing "in it for them" but they do it anyway. Hell, it was inevitable that someone's program that posts to a list of groups would screw up and hit massive numbers of targets. No profit, no motive even, just pure accident. It was inevitable because the design was naive, like the r commands.