1. AST bouncer 2. mail loops 3. unprintable chars on latsymb vms v5 1. AST bouncer... intercepts at vms ast delivery code and checks to see if it's a delete process ast for a wellknown process or its children. If so, unqueue ast, reverse src and dest, requeue it to the original sender. Effect is stop/id=xxxx on the protected process amounts to stop/id on process trying to do the stop on the protected proc. 2. mail loops... assume decnet as follows: node a: address 2.1 address 2.2 name FOO address 2.3 name BAR address 2.1 name A node b: address 2.2 node 2.3 name FOO node 2.1 name BAR node 2.2 name B node c: address 2.3 node 2.1 name FOO mode 2.2 name BAR node 2.3 name C now on any node have a user SET FORWARD FOO::user Send mail to that user & loop never stops. 3. Unprintable mail. LAT symbiont in VMS V5 is integrated with print symbiont. The method of telling the lat symbiont to exit is a couple magic characters in the data stream. Put those chars in a file and it can't be printed since the LAT symbiont will exit. (of course, can print on non lat printers but this could be most embarrassing.) 4. forcex on STS process Leave process around but with no image to handle intra-cluster lock traffic. Result: filesystems start to rot. Sometimes VERY fast.