Posted by MaxB on January 30, 1998 at 09:32:41:
In Reply to: CALL FOR VIRTUAL SIT-INS AT FIVE MEXICO FINANCIAL WEB SITES posted by rdom on January 20, 1998 at 10:02:03:
In an off-line conversation with Carmin et al,
someone brought up the issue of net traffic, ISPs,
and small international pipes.
Reloading the Bank's web page How about an email storm? Send thousands to emails 2) Email takes up disk space on the bank's server. 3) Someone has to read the email. If someone here Note: Each email message should be unique. This
the bank's WEB server, but just overload the ISPs
pipe.
messages to the bank. This has some advantages:
1) Email forwarders ( sendMail process ) will efficiently
use net bandwidth and not hose other 'civilians'.
Sending tens of thousands of large emails ( with
attachments of course ) sucks up tons of disk space
as the messages have to be held until someone reads
them.
writes a java app that can put together unique
subject lines with banking related terminology,
someone at the bank will have to wade through all
the bogus email to get to real business related
mail messages. This is my favorite part, it
actually disrupts business. After a short while
the bank will shut down there email account,
at least temporarily.
will keep the bank from writting a script to look
for a particular string in the email and auto
deleting it.