(snip)
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.
(end of quote)
One way to find out how many recipients Insight can handle in a CNM file is to
artificially add or delete recipients to the message. This might possible
require a text editor outside Arachne. Then see if the rest of the inbox is
viewable.
On that SULFNBK.EXE virus hoax, the sender may have thought it was for real, but
attaching an HTML dupe, gif image, and MS-Word doc is all-too-frequent Windows
idiocy, but I have seen some really computer-illiterate Windows users. They
didn't know a byte from a KB from a MB from a GB, didn't know their hard drive
capacity or modem speed, didn't know an internal modem from an external modem.
Some people in the business of selling Windows computers are not too bright
either, like the one who said the 386 and 486 were 16-bit machines. Some don't
know how to install Windows 2000.
Now I wonder if that "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" virus, mentioned in an alert
message by Laurie Proud, is for real, erasing the hard drive, or if that is a
hoax. I haven't received any SULFNBK.EXE warning messages, and only one
regarding "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus", that one being on the Arachne list.
SULFNBK.EXE file name is strange to me, I don't think I ever had a file by that
name.
