It was a not-uncommon -- once or twice a semester -- phenom at Carnegie Mellon University, where all undergrads starting in the 80s got email accounts. Not that interesting, really. -Declan On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:37:53PM -0500, dmolnar wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Blank Frank wrote:
A UK schoolboy sparked an international security alert after he sent an e-mail to the White House, threatening to kill United States President George W Bush.
Back in high school, we had a story that this had happened the year before I started there. The details were fuzzy, but variously involved a chat room comment or a direct threat to president@whitehouse.gov . I wonder how many kids end up in trouble for this each year...
-David