I moved mail, storing messages elsewhere, checked this and checked that,
and still got REBOOTED [automatically this time] when the index tried to
make itself for InBox. [I'd already eliminated any chance of virus
being a problem, and run Norton Speed Disk on all appropriate drives.]
So then I decided to start on individual pieces of mail, the ones last
downloaded [4 of them], to see if just maybe one of them was the
causative agent.
And I found it. A DozerwareDummy had sent out a notice to his mailing
list that he'd sent them yet another virus without realizing he even had
it. [WinderzWonderz ... more dollars than sense!]
Since the dear thing has no conception of how to set up a mailing list,
and his ISP has not bothered to set up *any* sort of anti-spam block
that stops RECPT TO after a hundred or two messages, he sent the mail TO
27K worth of e-mail addresses ... 290 lines worth, 2-3-4 edresses per
line!
My e-dress was somewhere in the middle of that, somewhere.
I don't know if the problem was in trying to FIND my e-dress in that
mess ...
OR
if it lies in the fact that Arachne would try to save all of those
half-a-thousand e-dresses as the variable $Cc ...
But it is obvious that there is an "open-end" of some sort in the
sorting or storing code. A block needs to be set in so
"if X>=Y STOP!!!!!!!" stops the crashing
[hey, I write crummy pseudocode but you get the idea, right?]
Now excuse me, please, while I go clean up the dupe reconfiguration over
in v1.66 ....
l.d.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
