At the Uni I attended back in the 80s, there was a network of Unix workstations, and we played all the usual predictable student pranks as we discovered what all the commands did.
One day, one of the lecturers announced he was tired of receiving jokey emails from the students, and that he had written a script that replied to any incoming message with 'Don't send me junk emails'. Not only that, but any further infraction would be greeted by two copies of the warning message being sent, then three, and so on.
He was so proud of this, that he gave everybody in the room a copy of the script.
'So what happens if I'm running this script and I send an email to you?' I asked innocently. The smile slowly faded from his face as the implications of what he had just done slowly sank in.....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
