This was really stupid
Let me set the scene (boring but it needs to be done). I was in my final year of GCSE's and in a ICT lesson. As usual I wasn't doing work and was pissing around on the computer. One of my friends had found a program on the network called winpopup, which basically is MSN messenger across a network. Some of us started sending relatively tame messages to each other, but then I found that you could send a message to more than one person at once, and thinking that it would only send a message to people who had the program open, sent a message along the lines of "Person X is a twat" to the network, but obviously I put his real name in.


5 minutes later, one of the IT teachers comes in looking really angry and asked for the person sitting next to me, who sent a message across the network just before I did. Turns out, I had proclaimed that Person X was a twat to the ENTIRE SCHOOL, including every teacher (and to make it worse it was a big school with many teachers)


Needless to say, I lost my user account soon after (among many other punishments) and Person X wasn't exactly thrilled. Thankfully, I changed schools once the year had finished, but that's a different story...

The moral of this story? don't be as fucking stupid as I was and think that sending a message to the entire network doesn't send it to the entire network.
(Flabbergaster laughs at danger (and breaks all the rules), Thu 26 May 2005, 19:07, Reply)