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...fact, many students and faculty do this with their "inboxes" (virtual mailboxes). Instead of archiving e-mail for future reference, some folks simply leave old e-mail in their inboxes. It is easy for e-mail users to let their inboxes grow arbitrarily large, since unlike a traditional mailbox, an inbox has no obvious physical constraints...
...been hacked," says Quittner, who writes about computers -- and hackers -- for the newspaper Newsday, and will start writing for TIME in January. Not only had someone jammed his Internet mailbox with thousands of unwanted pieces of E-mail, finally shutting down his Internet access altogether, but the couple's telephone had been reprogrammed to forward incoming calls to an out-of-state number, where friends and relatives heard a recorded greeting laced with obscenities. "What's really strange," says Quittner, "is that nobody who phoned -- including my editor and my mother -- thought anything of it. They just left their messages...
...meanwhile if you're feeling particularly spiteful toward an old professor or especially eager to exact revenge on an administrator, there's always the old stuff-the-gooey-egg-in-the-mailbox bit. And when you see them earnestly pontificating in Monday's lecture, you can picture their look of shock when they open their mailbox the next morning...
...putting messages in their mailboxes the line, since Harvard employees who oppose Higgins don't have the same access he does. Indeed, making such mailbox-stuffing a regular practice would constitute an abuse of Higgins's position...
...avoid Au Bon Pain Man. Living in Kirkland House, I was initially dismayed at the thought of have to pass right by him three or four times a day. Some careful research taught me that if you stay off the sidewalk and cross the street before you hit the mailbox at the corner of the sidewalk of the fine bakery, you should be able to escape him (though you should beware that sometimes he does do a 180 really fast and catches you anyway...