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oddball email messages
This is weird. I got the same thing, but probably only a dozen or so. Why are
some people getting hundreds, and some only a few? |
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"Sherry " wrote in message
... This is weird. I got the same thing, but probably only a dozen or so. Why are some people getting hundreds, and some only a few? So far, I think I've downloaded about 300-400 of the little beggers. I can only assume that they've harvested from usenet, as all my other e-mail addies, including my oldest which gets about 50 spams a day, are completely free of it. Some are yahoo, some are other free web e-mails, and as I said, the last is my home ISP addy which I don't pay much attention to because it gets alot of spam. All those e-mail addies appear at least somewhere on the WWW and some have posted to Usenet in the distant past.. The most annoying thing about is that Yahoo only stores 6 meg of messages befire it starts bouncing the mesages bacj with the error message "inbox full". As it only seems to take a few hours to entirely fill up my yahoo inbox with these stupid messages (which aren't small), if I want to keep this address available for Real People to e-mail I need to clear it out every few hours. And I simply don't have the time. I'm trusting this will spate of attacks will die down in a few days and my inbox can return to its normal functioning state. If it doesn't I'll have no choice but to get another e-mail addy, which is something I *really* don't want to do. Considering the places where this e-mail is (Flippy's Cat Page, David Stevenson's Cat page, the FAQ, several yahoo groups, other NGS, group photos, Schoolfriends, how you guys contact me etc etc) its going to be a right pain in the arse. If I ever find someone who wrote the virus, they will live the rest of their days in intimate contact with Shmogg's litterbox. Yowie |
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