Years ago, our email system was unix-server based, and everyone worked off dumb terminals. No Exchange, no Notes, no internet mail, no nothing - just the unix mail client.

Someone sent a only-slightly off-color joke to the entire department, and it was a good laugh. Being new, I decided to reply to the author with a very dirty joke, something about fags and a truck driver. I used "R" to reply, instead of "r" ... in the unix mail world, the upper case R is a "Reply-all" and soon, I was getting all kinds of calls asking how I had the nerve to send out so vulgar a joke.

Fortunately in those days, I had the root password and was able to go into the mailbox file for all users and delete my email by hand - I deleted it from the VP's and my manager's mail first, of course, then hit every other mailbox. Saved my ass by the skin of my teeth.

Now, root access on a unix system ... that's a WHOLE other set of confessions!

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by Anonymous on Oct 12, 2002 at 1:23 PM

One time I used CRON to tell BessieLou that I luves Bart Simpson. Now I never change my T-shirt!

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