DHL in Internet Packet Storm SNAFU
John Leyden writes in The Register:
People responding to a promo run by delivery firm DHL were bombarded with a deluge of hundreds of emails this week.
Firms responding to an offer of a free Blackberry in return for opening up an account with the packet delivery outfit were subjected to a packet storm because of flaws with some of the recipients' email systems, triggered by DHL's misguided decision to send out a message to 1,000 people directly instead of as blind carbon copies.
An email sent out to the list generated a message storm. Glitches in email systems of three of the recipients generated a blitz of replicated emails.
posted by Fergie @ 11/24/2005 08:23:00 AM
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