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Bertie the Bunyip
 
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Peter J Ross wrote in
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:19:18 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip's
long-suffering mother turned her back for just a moment, and Bertie
the Bunyip did *this* to alt.usenet.kooks:

Peter J Ross wrote in
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:17:41 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip's
long-suffering mother turned her back for just a moment, and Bertie
the Bunyip did *this* to alt.usenet.kooks:

wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

(Doug Freyburger) wrote in
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Scott Lowther wrote:

I'm getting them from a VAST number of different e-mail
addresses. Every one is different. Different subject,
different sender.

Anybody have a really good way of dealing with these? I use
Mailwasher, and it's showing its limitations...

Does anyone know how to block any message with an attachment on
Yahoo? I know of other ISPs that offer that. It has enough
variations that I ran up against my limit of filters.


Oh, I could tell you. I remain remarkably unaffected..


BTW, where's that apology?

Bertie

I don't want make insinuations, but you could be part of the
problem. I think I was. Windows has a whole slew of new patches
and security updates that fix this thing. Download them from:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp


BTW, double posting is a sign of a possible virus.

It's easy to fix, fortunately. Viv just has to set fire to
his/her/its hard drive.

I do it at least twice a day. I just go to the c: prompt in DOS and
select C:/format Works like a charm.


I hope you remember to wipe the disk 500 times with PGP after
formatting (and after deleting PGP, of course).


Oh, I go one better and stick a big magnet next to the HD.

After deleting PGP, of course.



Bertie