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Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Mon May 19 13:22:08 1997

In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970519000346.00743730@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:24:59 -0700
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>, Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>

>Eudora does have a "Only download messages less than ___K" option
>that can reduce this problem; I don't know if there's also
>a way to delete the message from Eudora without downloading it.
>Netscape Mail has similar options.
>

It does.  If you use the above method for preventing uncontrolled download
(whch I do) and if you also check the "trash attachments with message"
option from the  "Settings" menu, large attachments can be prevented from
download and deleted from the host.

--Steve


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