This is a repost.
Put the coffee *down* before reading. Set the soda aside. Consumption of food or beverage is not advised while reading this.
From: Joe Gross
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Date: 2 Apr 1996 08:17:55 GMT
Apparently a lot of users get "message from talk daemon@blah.blah" and don't realize exactly what a daemon is. They apparently then try to "talk daemon" and then "mail daemon" when they find daemon is not logged on.
This is even better than the people who respond to "MAILER-DAEMON"
I was cleaning out /var/mail and found daemon's mailbox. After deleteing the ~1500 mails from "Mail Delivery Subsystem" these gems were left. The names have been removed to protect the clueless.
To: DAEMON@students.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Returned mail: Service unavailable
oh, go shove it up your ass
Subject: Just a question
Hello,
I got your e-mail from a friend and they told me that I could get info on computers from you. Could you e-mail me back. I don't know much.
To: daemon@students.uiuc.edu
Subject: good luck try again
Hi hon! Guess what I got a message from the computer site that says you tried to email me but it never made it, last Saturday. Sniff. I'm sorry I missed it. I didn't read this mail from the comp site because I thought it was about a message I had sent to Poland. So anyway luv ya.
To: daemon@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: What up?
Hi- who are you and do you want to talk to me- did you interrupt my letter for something that I should know? Get back to me if you can and tell me who you are and what I should do.
To: daemon@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
cc: Y-talk@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
Hi there,
I don't know who you are, but I just tried y-talking you back
and nothing is happening. Am I doing it wrong or something. By the
way, my name is Amy. Hi! So who are you? You can write me back if
you want.
To: Daemon@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: who are you dude?
mike
To: Daemon@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
Who r u and what did u do to my computer?
To: daemon@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: what the hell
please get a life.....
To: "0000-Admin(0000)"
ok, you want to speak? I don't know you...
To: Daemon
I've tried typing in "ntalk . . ." but it doesn't work!!!
To: daemon@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu
what's the deal?
To: Who Knows
Hey-
I am sorry i did not respond to the n-talk--I do not know how to
I also do not remember how to do irc--clue me in please
Good to see you the other day
Write back--Please
To: daemon Subject: Fuck Off!!!
Fuck Off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: daemon
Subject: my pine doesn't work.
Excuse me, but everything was working fine and now that you fixed your
problems,
my pine program doesn'r ^?^?^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[C44^[[D
my pine program doesn't work and I can't correct my typos. Why
doesn't pine ha
ve permissiom ^?^[OP^[OPdelete
why can't I use pine. I don't know how to program or anything. I
can't even co
rrect typos because the delete and backspace buttons don't work. I'm
frustrated