>Nowadays it would be an even bigger deal because someone who was cleaning up the code could file a harassment lawsuit.

True. But I don't know if they could prove who did it, with the mainframe multi-programmer environment back then, though everyone could guess easily. I would probably just offer a bonus to code-cleanup volunteers, and leave it be, if I was in charge of it.

It would make a heck of a courtroom case anyway, can you imagine the "prosecution presentatation" and "defense disection" of the evidence?

Say, I hope I didn't give anybody any bad coding practice ideas here with this story. Y'all keep your code clean, y'hear?