Hello Arachnids:
Someone I know who runs Arachne 1.70, rev. 3 called me today and
said that all of the messages in her inbox except for one had
"disappeared".
I went to her home and took a look at her inbox while within InSight.
There were about 25 messages listed having no headers and all having
zero bytes except for one. The subject line of the only message
showing headers was "RESTORING THE SULFNBK.EXE FILE". When I clicked
on this message I got the Arachne Load Error Page.
Next I shut down Arachne and started examining the files in the inbox
by using a file viewer. All of the CNM files were there and they seemed
complete. I found that the idiot who had sent the message about
restoring the SULFNBLK.EXE file had addressed the message to approx. 275
multiple recipients, each having his email address individually listed!
The mailer used was MicroSoft Outlook Express. Doesn't Microsoft Outlook
Express have an "@list" type of feature similar to what we find in
Arachne and Nettamer and other good email clients? Why would this idiot
want to send out so many private email addresses in her message headers?
I suppose some idiots just like to chum for trolls.
The contents of the offending message I will briefly describe as follows:
There was a text body saying something to the effect that in case you
deleted the SULFNBK.EXE as a result of responding to a virus hoax, then
you should restore it because it is a useful Windows file. The message
also had a dupe HTML attachment, a gif image attachment, and if that
wasn't bad enough, the idiot even included a MicroSoft Word attachment
being a document having instructions on how to restore the SULFNBK.EXE
file. Of course these simple instructions could have been just as well
presented with ascii text.
What would you guys think of some idiot who would be so brash as to
insinuate that about 275 people on her mailing list might be so stupid
as to have fallen for this virus hoax? What would you think of some idiot
that would suppose that all these people would have no idea as to how to
go about restoring a standard Windows file that ships with the
installation CD-ROM?
If all of the above were not bad enough, then here is the idiocy which
passeth all understanding: The government is so stupid that it even
hired this idiot for a responsible high-salaried supervisory position !!!!
Back in the days when I worked for the government, job applicants used to
have to present evidence of their knowledge, skills, education, experience,
and abilities prior to being accepted even for an interview for an entry
level position. Look what is happening now!
BTW, after having edited the offending message file by deleting almost
all of the muliple recipients' email addresses I was able to view the
message within InSight and all of the other message files as well.
As a result of the experience described above I have discovered that there
is some limit as to the number of multiple recipients that InSight can
handle in a CNM file. I haven't yet conducted any experiments to determine
what the limit is.
Has anyone else yet experienced a problem with a CNM file having too many
multiple recipients listed? If not, then look for such a CNM file if ever
you should have a problem with viewing whatever is in your inbox. In the
Windows world idiots abound.
All the best,
Sam Heywood, happily climbing the walls and bouncing around in a box
without windows.
-- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
