I received yesterday an email apparently via the group from J Taylor containing apparently 2 jpegs each over a megabyte long.
I haven't had this happen ... as yet, although it may have picked several addresses from the list.
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.
Yes, these are painful :-(
The way to get around this, once you are aware of having a large 'spam' or 'unwanted' file waiting for you at the ISP is to get web mail facility.
Which your ISP may have.
Log into the web mail - using any Browser - using the password that you have set up. Look at all the addresses that you have at the ISP and you will have displayed all the incoming emails.
Delete the ones that are obviously not wanted.
This means that you are deleting the email at the ISP, before you download it when you normally dial in.
There may be other ways of achieving the same thing.
I use this simple technique effectively.
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.
Most likely a malicious intervention ...
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.
-- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
