Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

Timothy,

If mailbombing bothers you, get a Unix account and procmail. The following
procmail recipe may help:

:0
* > 100000
/dev/null

You may have not as many enemies as you imagine, though.

igor

Tim May wrote:
> 
> (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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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."
> 
> 
> 
> 



	- Igor.