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armm
(foldoc) | Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation
ARMM
(ARMM) A Usenet robot created by Dick Depew of
Munroe Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel
posts from anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the
robot's recogniser for anonymous postings triggered on its own
automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this
stroke of programming ineptitude into a monster of
Frankensteinian proportions, it broke loose on the night of
1993-03-31 and proceeded to spam news:news.admin.policy
with a recursive explosion of over 200 messages.
Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological
messages crashed at least one mail system, and upset people
paying line charges for their Usenet feeds. One poster
described the ARMM debacle as "instant Usenet history" (also
establishing the term despew), and it has since been widely
cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of
good intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network.
Compare Great Worm; sorcerer's apprentice mode. See also
software laser, network meltdown.
(1996-01-08)
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armm
(jargon) | ARMM
n.
[acronym, ‘Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation’] A Usenet cancelbot
created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to
automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the
robot's recognizer for anonymous postings triggered on its own
automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this stroke of
programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankensteinian proportions, it
broke loose on the night of March 30, 1993 and proceeded to spam
news.admin.policy with a recursive explosion of over 200 messages.
ARMM's bug produced a recursive cascade of messages each of which
mechanically added text to the ID and Subject and some other headers of its
parent. This produced a flood of messages in which each header took up
several screens and each message ID and subject line got longer and longer
and longer.
Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological messages
crashed at least one mail system, and upset people paying line charges for
their Usenet feeds. One poster described the ARMM debacle as “instant
Usenet history” (also establishing the term despew), and it has since
been widely cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of
good intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network. The Usenet thread
on the subject is archived here. Compare Great Worm; {sorcerer's
apprentice mode}. See also software laser, network meltdown.
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armm
(foldoc) | Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation
ARMM
(ARMM) A Usenet robot created by Dick Depew of
Munroe Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel
posts from anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the
robot's recogniser for anonymous postings triggered on its own
automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this
stroke of programming ineptitude into a monster of
Frankensteinian proportions, it broke loose on the night of
1993-03-31 and proceeded to spam news:news.admin.policy
with a recursive explosion of over 200 messages.
Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological
messages crashed at least one mail system, and upset people
paying line charges for their Usenet feeds. One poster
described the ARMM debacle as "instant Usenet history" (also
establishing the term despew), and it has since been widely
cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of
good intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network.
Compare Great Worm; sorcerer's apprentice mode. See also
software laser, network meltdown.
(1996-01-08)
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armm
(jargon) | ARMM
n.
[acronym, ‘Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation’] A Usenet cancelbot
created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to
automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the
robot's recognizer for anonymous postings triggered on its own
automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this stroke of
programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankensteinian proportions, it
broke loose on the night of March 30, 1993 and proceeded to spam
news.admin.policy with a recursive explosion of over 200 messages.
ARMM's bug produced a recursive cascade of messages each of which
mechanically added text to the ID and Subject and some other headers of its
parent. This produced a flood of messages in which each header took up
several screens and each message ID and subject line got longer and longer
and longer.
Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological messages
crashed at least one mail system, and upset people paying line charges for
their Usenet feeds. One poster described the ARMM debacle as “instant
Usenet history” (also establishing the term despew), and it has since
been widely cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of
good intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network. The Usenet thread
on the subject is archived here. Compare Great Worm; {sorcerer's
apprentice mode}. See also software laser, network meltdown.
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