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The Saturday 2007-01-27 at 22:00 +0100, jdd wrote:
> > At the speeds Sergey has, even that is a problem. Let me see, 50 Kbytes at
> > 18 Kbits, that is about 50 / 1.8 = 27.8 seconds. Half a minute per message.
>
> I know. If I have a fast dsl line my mother (born 1920, computer user from
> 2001 :-) have only a modem one. I pay the bill so I know it's _very cheap_ for
> e-mail only (from 2 to 10 Euros per month), and I happen to send her some
> (small) photos.
>
> and she uses e-mail nearly any day from several countries in the world :-)
Yes, discovering email is a wonderful experience.
> most mail do _not_ carry attachments. the worst are spams, then outlook
> express with vcards
Spammers now are sending random text and html, with the real payload in a
gif image. Whereas spam emails used to have 5..10 KiB, now they have
20..50 KiB. I have seen some that obfuscate the graphic with what I think
must be "tempest" fonts or techniques so that OCR of the image will fail,
and it will be passed by antispammers analyzing the images.
It's a war :-(
I have lost email communication with a relative overseas due to malware
and spam crashing her computer as soon as she plugs it. A friend repairs
it, it goes down in less than a month. I can't go there and install linux,
too far.
Damm :-/ (sorry)
>
> notice that friends with new 8Mpix cameras are not bas as well... but this is
> OT :-)
Worst offenders are people using outlook from a company account. Network
is no expense! So they send HUGE presentations to a hundred friends.
But yes, it is OT.
If only Linux was mandatory default installed system for newly bought PCs! :-P
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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