Oh man, the days before blocking net send was a common school sysadmin practice…
Back when I was a highschool freshman (2004-05) I wrote a batch script that would fire off net sends to everyone in the computer lab in rapid succession in an infinite loop, then just sort of left it on a shared drive with a conspicuous name. Sure enough, a few days later, someone ran it out of curiosity and got in trouble, but of course the file had my username in the metadata, and my computer teacher was like “Chris, you knew what you were doing, don’t do this again.”
It was the kind of “good clean fun” sort of prank that doesn’t get you in hot water or suspended, but was hilarious to watch play out.
Edit: Just re-read and saw that your friend got expelled for doing basically the same thing I did. That sucks. I’ll note that I went to an IT-focused votech school, so I think a lot of folks had a better sense of perspective as to how serious net send pranks actually were in the grand scheme of things.
Back when I was a highschool freshman (2004-05) I wrote a batch script that would fire off net sends to everyone in the computer lab in rapid succession in an infinite loop, then just sort of left it on a shared drive with a conspicuous name. Sure enough, a few days later, someone ran it out of curiosity and got in trouble, but of course the file had my username in the metadata, and my computer teacher was like “Chris, you knew what you were doing, don’t do this again.”
It was the kind of “good clean fun” sort of prank that doesn’t get you in hot water or suspended, but was hilarious to watch play out.
Edit: Just re-read and saw that your friend got expelled for doing basically the same thing I did. That sucks. I’ll note that I went to an IT-focused votech school, so I think a lot of folks had a better sense of perspective as to how serious net send pranks actually were in the grand scheme of things.