Re: Can one stop attachments to prevent DOS attack?

From: Dr. David Kirkby (see_my_signature_for_my_real_address_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: 26 Sep 2003 18:20:10 -0700

gerryt@gtconnect.net () wrote in message > > "Dr. David Kirkby" <see-my-signiture-for-email-address@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<3F6E6096.73106623@nowhere.com>...

> > Despite the fact I've posted to nesgroups with this email address for
> > only a few days, the hotmail account is already overfull, so messages
> > are bouncing.
>
> WadeA minute - You hate M$ almost as much as I do but you have a hotmail
> account?? I already suggested using netscape.net. Admittedly the 5 MB
> limit and 2 MB attachment limit might be unacceptable..

The more I think about this, the more I think it is good to use a
Hotmail account rather than a Netscape one, for posting to newsgrops
like this.

Microsoft created the problem due to a lack of security in Internet
Explorer (or so F-Secure tell us), so now Microsoft can keep me an
account, allocate me some disk space, so that spammers can send me
multiple copies of SWEN, which Microsoft pay at least part of the
costs of transporting over the internet. 

-- 
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably 
the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge.
Dr. David Kirkby. 
Real e-mail address at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/drkirkby/home-email.jpg

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