Hello,
Or,  dropbox, for that matter? Mine may have opened it, but after 5 minutes, I 
just hit the reset key. 

----- Original Message -----
From: john <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 10 August 2015 2:07 pm
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] jim's nfl football - Josh K

>
>
> You might have had more luck sending it via an attachment.
> As a general rule of thumb, most text editors (including mail clients) will 
> get mad if you give them more than a couple hundred kb to chew on.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Josh K" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 0:48
> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] jim's nfl football - Josh K
> 
> hey guys it was a very big log file of an entire season of nfl football.
> i wanted to show you guys how good I am at the game and how I won the
> superbowl. i had to send it through gmail on the website because it made
> my email client go crazy when I tried putting the whole thing into a
> message.
> 
> 
> follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982
> 
> On 8/9/2015 8:50 PM, john wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >      I just received an email from "Josh Kennedy" (not Josh k - this may 
> > be important), with a listed size of about 1100 kb, and subject something 
> > to do with "jim's nfl football" (I deleted the message, and don't have the 
> > exact line anymore).
> > As soon as I tried to read the message my mail client went ballistic; 
> > fully loading up my processor and sending memory usage through the roof 
> > (fellow nerds that's 400mb). I'm not sure if this was just the world's 
> > largest game log file, or if it was something more sinister, but I'd 
> > advise anybody who got the message to avoid opening it.
> >
> > I'm hoping that this really was just a bad decision to send an ungodly 
> > large log through email and not some kind of virus on list, but given the 
> > way my machine reacted I figured it'd probably be best to post an alert 
> > about it just in case (if you do open the message, killing my mail client 
> > seems to have fixed the issue).
> > I'd also note that I'm not trying to accuse anybody here - rather to offer 
> > a note of caution and a request that we try not to post logs t're 
> > larger than a bunch of novels put together.
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