[Ti] Sudden Spate of Viruses

[cbirds]

On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 03:26  PM, A.J.Bos wrote:

> Me too, I get roughly 50 to 60 a day of them, each 144kb or 156kb 
> large. On a dialup link, that's not funny anymore. My providers says 
> it's my own fault, since I gave away my email address and they won't 
> do a thing about it. :-(
> Well, it might just be the time to switch providers...

This is utterly ridiculous. If you are a heavy user of the internet as 
I am, you subscribe to newsletters, make purchases, and do learning and 
as such your address gets out whether you like it or not. You can ask 
it not be sold or given, but that isn't always the case.
Do they feel that just because your phone number is listed in the phone 
book that people have the right to call you with advertisements that 
you did not ask for? NO! Why should you have to take your listing out 
just for that?

> BTW, Mail.app has this preference you can set for an account that will 
> warn you if the message you're about to download is larger than a 
> certain number of kilobytes. Comes in very handy here.

Gonna try that now......