(I was locked out of getting my mail tonight for more than an hour, when a member of the Cypherpunks list _mailed_ me a several-megabyte file without asking first. As I explain in my message to Steve Schear, I have no way of removing such "mail bombs" with my Eudora/POP system until they have been downloaded to my machine (I don't have a shell account anymore). I suppose by admitting this I am opening myself to being mailbombed by Dmitri V., Vladimir N, and my other Russian (or ersatz Russian) enemies.) At 10:47 AM -0800 5/18/97, Steve Schear wrote:
I'll have to get it off the Iraqi or Syrian sites.
Saddam doesn't want yanquis to think he is heartless. Consider this a humanitarian gesture from the good people of Iraq.
Attachment converted: APS 1GB Fireball:PGP 50b16 Installer.sit (SITD/SIT!) (0001153F)
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your little "gesture" shut my system down through repeated attempts to download it. It would load a bit, fail, then have to start over. It took me more than an hour to get a complete download, at which point I could finally delete that 4 MB file. (I use a POP server and Eudora Pro 3.0 and know of no way to abort or skip a load, except to call my sysadmin during business hours and ask him to delete the message.) THANKS FOR FUCKING NOTHING. Never, ever, ever send me a large file without asking first!!!!!!!!!!! Disgusted, --TCM There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."