Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

(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)
>
>PGP mail preferred

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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





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