CEO Thinks He Knows Better Than IT Worker When It Comes To Emails, Ends Up As The Laughing Stock Of Everybody He’s Ever Respected CEO IT
What this CEO had implemented by accident bares some similarities to what is referred to as an email bomb. If that sounds particularly war-like, just wait, email terminology gets wild. Back to the point, an email bomb is either a program or other method that sends so many emails to a particular address, that it simply stops functioning. Normally, this is part of a DoS, or denial-of-service, attack, which isto shut down its target.
Now, technically, this CEO created an email storm or a ‘reply allpocalypse’. Even tech experts are not immune, for example, a Microsoft employee in 1997a list containing 13,000 email addresses. Others in the list started to reply, causing a cascading wave of emails, which was later estimated to cap at 15 million emails and 195GB of traffic, which was pretty significant back in the day.
over 500 million emails in roughly one hour after an IT worker sent a “test mail.” Goes to show that even professionals make mistakes.If an email bomb sounded aggressive, then let’s take a look at the protocol wars. This is not something out of the Matrix or TRON, rather, it’s a really mundane debate from the 1970s and 1980s over which communications protocols would be best for this
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