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From: Mike
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:20

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:25:56 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

> On 19 Sep 2003 12:37:04 -0700, Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>Jim Thompson wrote...
>>>
>>> Winfield wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got over 1000 at home this morning, over 450 of them
>>>> arriving in a single 5 minute period at about 0640 EST.
>>>> Strangely, I got almost none at my work email.
>>>
>>> Those of us running Eudora got NONE ;-)
>>
>> It has nothing to do with what email client you're
>> running.  As it happens I've been using The BAT at
>> home (and Netscape at work). 
>>
>> The BAT is a standards-based email program that
>> won't do _any_ type of automatic execution, which is
>> probably what you're thinking of.  But this doesn't
>> protect you from getting a flood of email if some
>> computers out there should turn their firehoses on
>> you!  Watch out!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    - Win
> 
> I suspect that here Cox Communications is stopping it all... I note
> that outbound E-mail is posting *very* slowly.
> 
>                                         ...Jim Thompson

I suspect that's why I didn't receive a single one of the emails. Cox on
one account, Yahoo on another (lots of my Yahoo email is related to my
manhood and my mortgage, but none is related to Microsoft security), and
work (where we have active spam filters) on another. 

-- Mike --

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