Comment by Frost1x
4 years ago
Depending on the time period, it's pretty easy to clean out nice well patterned spam like that these days. In the days of yester-year, it could be a largely manual process.
In AOL one prank was to flood someone with emails because it was difficult to remove them, IIRC and needed to be done almost one by one.
> In AOL one prank was to flood someone with emails because it was difficult to remove them, IIRC and needed to be done almost one by one.
An email service one of my friends used around 2005/6 (I can't remember if it was Lycos or the school internal system) had a similar issue - you could only remove a page (10-15 IIRC) of emails at a time. Once he mentioned this, one of my other friends took this as a cue to blast him with 32k (pretty sure it was 32768) emails. I don't think he ever got them all deleted.