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Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks
Tim May <[email protected]> writes:
> (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.)
Idiot - why would I want to do that?
Idiot - tell your POP client not to download files > certain size.
Idiot - get your shell account back.
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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