[LAU] Close, but no cigar

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Sat Apr 1 11:01:05 UTC 2017


On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:56:46 +0200 Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 22:22 -1000, David Jones wrote:
> > On Mar 31, 2017 22:12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 01 Apr 2017, at 01:22, Jeanette C.
> > > > <julien at mail.uni-paderborn.de> wrote: I started thinking, it
> > > > wasn't that time of year, but then I noticed that it actually
> > > > is. 
> > > 
> > > A filter rule to move mails from this particular date to a
> > > special folder (Krusty folder) doesn't harm ;). This might work
> > > with a filter rule based on physics. Since this date does cause
> > > some kind of intellectual vacuum, the Casimir effect should work
> > > to move those mails to the Krusty folder.
> > 
> > I think I'd recommend moving them to /dev/blackhole instead. :)
> 
> Then another you or me in a parallel universe would receive duplicated
> messages, respl. all of us would receive multiple messages, if this
> would be done by several you or me. We would get rid of the messages
> from our universe, but receive several new from the multiverse. Let
> alone that feedback might be possible, if so, we actually would
> receive an endless amount of the original emails we moved
> to /dev/blackhole. Such blackhole loops could be misused for advanced
> DDoS or e-mail chain letters.

Multiverse Blackhole Distributed Denial of Service!

Now that is something to save for the future! Btw, do we know _when_
these messages would be released by the blackhole? Maybe with the right
energy we can make these messages reappear in a year?
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