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Re: New e-mail address for Frank Filz
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:23:35 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Frank Filz wrote:
> Started Friday. There was a blast a couple weeks ago also, but that
> seemed concentrated on a single address so Earthlink's e-mail block
> worked. Earthlink has been singularly unresponsive to the issue. They
> keep telling me I can put my account on the highest level of spam
> blocking, where suspect e-mail goes into a special folder, and still
> uses mail quota. Gee, what a solution...
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> At this point, I'd love to be able to shut off receiving attachments.
> Anyone who legitimately needs to send me an attachment can find a place
> to upload it to for me (like a Yahoo group).
For what it's worth, I've beeen inundated by ~174K emails for the past few days,
too. I've never has so many options for the new "M$ Security Patch" or the
latest male enhancement product. I wonder what kicked off the flood?
I wish I could set a filter to block any emails (or attachments) larger than,
say, 50K (or whatever size I choose). Of course, since I'm on a free email
server, I guess I get what I pay for.
Dave!
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| (...) The same here ... I've been getting these messages as well. Over 200 in the last 12hrs. I'm on a DSL, but its still taxing - it takes about 10 mins to download my mail in the mornings. I've turned off the chime in outlook too, because there (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) Started Friday. There was a blast a couple weeks ago also, but that seemed concentrated on a single address so Earthlink's e-mail block worked. Earthlink has been singularly unresponsive to the issue. They keep telling me I can put my account (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.people)
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