On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 at 20:29:23, jms1 wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>I received yesterday an email apparently via the group from J Taylor
>containing apparently 2 jpegs each over a megabyte long.
>It took over twenty minutes to download and I have to download all of it
>otherwise the ISP records it has not been received and leaves it to be
>downloaded again.
Your ISP is sure to provide an admin interface you can log on to and
delete.
>Did John Taylor send it?
>If so was it to the group by accident?
>If not somebody is using John Taylor's email address to be a nuisance and
>perhaps to spread viruses.
>However it does the rails the question of excessively long emails.
>Perhaps the server should send any email through the group longer than a
>kilobyte long to device null so that they do not cause any problems.
It was not via the group - at least not to here.
Worms can easily forge headers.
TOny
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