Wayne Gemmell [wayneg@ananzi.co.za] wrote:
> > >>>"Walt L. Williams" <wwilliams@intergate.com> wrote:
> > >>>>Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails
> > >>>>that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming
> > >>>>is increasing exponentially.
>
> I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved
> another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this
> rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded!
> Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for
> this!
I hit 150MB this morning before setting up some rules to drop these
mails in /dev/null.
Are they targetting mailing lists exclusively? Why are other people not
getting bombed?
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to
be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge
gives. A popular government without popular information or the means
of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or
perhaps both."
- James Madison
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