Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks

At 11:26 pm -0400 on 5/18/97, Tim May wrote:
I have no way of removing such "mail bombs" with my Eudora/POP system until they have been downloaded to my machine
My version of Eudora, and, I think, the freeware version also, has a little check box in the "Checking Mail" settings dialog which lets you leave messages over a certain size on the server, where you can delete them without having to download them. Since I'm on about 100 mail lists at last count, including, of course, the SET-dev list, where such godawful cluelessness (including, BTW, the use of multimegabyte .pdf, Microsoft Word <including macro viruses, of course>, and ASN1 files :-)) is commonplace, I have found this little checkbox a godsend. I have mine set at 100k. It works for me. Of course, Tim doesn't get to read this message, or any other, for that matter, to do him any good this time around... If we lived here, we'd be home now. Self reference is a dish best tasted cold, I suppose. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
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