One of the team leads was trying to figure it out, and sent a message to her group saying, 'if you can read this, please raise your hand.'
Of course, she got it wrong, and sent the message out to the whole corporation. No safeguards against that, at the time.
Nothing bad happened, other than severe embarrassment. But I still smile at the thought of the marketing department setting in their offices, hands raised, wondering if it was safe to lower them yet...
> "it's Evan" (yes, I put my name)
I just sent 'test' and I think it shows IP or computer name, but it didn't really matter, I had to confess when they asked the class who did it.
'net' has so much stuff crammed into it though, it's unbelievable. Feels like a skeleton key that just barely follows rules.
And I had even managed to figure out how to target it at specific logged-in users!
I (in Australia) had to contact my brother (in Germany) urgently one day. So I 'rwall'd the machine that I knew he used most often. To great success.
I got suspended for a week and banned from the computer room for a year.
Back in 7th grade I stumbled upon the "net send" command. So, bored in the back of class one day, I sent a few messages and saw them pop up simultaneously on all the computers. I thought it was pretty funny. I didn't sent anything vulgar. Just something like, "yo", and "it's Evan" (yes, I put my name).
Well, turns out I sent those messages to every computer in the district. Three elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and the administration building.
Maybe 10m later someone from the IT team came and asked who had computer #XX. Obviously was me. Principal claimed I hacked into all the computers and said he'd call me back in for an appropriate punishment.
Nothing ever amounted to it. Never got called back in so I had no repercussions.