Comment by beambot

Good old "net send." Out of all the things, that was the one I got chewed out about too.

Wasn't a regular MS user, but we were in a computer training lab at a company for "computer day" field trip. Was bored during instructions, so naturally I logged in, found "net send", and sent a few crank messages to classmates using * as destination. Everyone, including the instructor, got a good laugh.

Approached later in day by corporate IT. Apparently the lab had poor routing rules, no firewalls, and sat on the main Corp network. My messages were received on 25,000 terminals.

Thankfully, they recognized this as (a) harmless, and (b) their own lax failure. No adverse outcome.