Harry chastises Tim Blair for his posting of Guardian journalist’s email addresses encouraging ‘email bombing’. I’m not going to defend in the least the hacking and disabling of the Guardian website. For a site with so much through-traffic you’d think it’d be better protected than it evidently was. I mean it wasn’t even a DOS attack - this was evidently a vulnerability exploit.
However ‘email bombing’ is an entirely different matter from having 5,000 people email their opinions to you about your print, no matter how derogatory or unpleasant many may have been.
Trust me, if they had been email bombed they’d have had a lot more than 5,000 emails. Heck I sent more than that as one prong of my attack on Kent & Blaxille School’s server (don’t worry, I said sorry and I almost got expelled - I didn’t go unpunished and I am a long way from seeing that action as just, even if it was provoked).
What they got was a lot of bad feedback.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 25, 2004 08:17 PM | TrackBack