Oh the email that crushed NAIT's Lotus Notes

[Melbosa]

https://www.facebook.com/zakkwylde/videos/2246832745640460/...

Forgot about this one until today when I saw it on facebook.  Yes, DD can tell you, when this first came out as an email attachment it almost destroyed NAIT's Lotus Notes server as it got passed around by Staff.

[Mr. Analog]

OH man back in the good ol' days when you had to share the files and not some YouTube link

[Darren Dirt]

Roundkicking bear vs. human?

Just based on the thread title.

And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...

[Mr. Analog]

Roundkicking bear vs. human?

Just based on the thread title.

And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...

The trouble with idiot proofing is the universe always makes a better idiot.

[Melbosa]

Roundkicking bear vs. human?

Yep

Just based on the thread title.

Good Memory lol

And it was due to running out of space IIRC. Nobody thought ahead how stupid people might be...

It sure was, at the time I think it was a 10mb attachment, shared by over 600 people and we didn't have the capacity for it on the Lotus Notes email servers lol

[Darren Dirt]

The trouble with idiot proofing is the universe always makes a better idiot.

Yup, there's a StackExchange AND a Quora for that!

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/91961/what-is-a-nicer-way-of-describing-the-process-of-idiot-proofing-a-piece-of-sof

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-quote-Programming-today-is-a-race-between-software-engineers-striving-to-build-bigger-and-better-idiot-proof-programs-and-the-universe-trying-to-build-bigger-and-better-idiots-So-far-the

[Darren Dirt]

LOL there's also a card game called "idiot" (not id1ot, but that's close enough)

https://cardgames.io/idiot/#rules