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From: "D. Brownlee" <brownlee@acm.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hardest hit ...
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:22:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7010DE.8030807@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030923160340.GA44848@mero.morphisms.net>

alot of people have an ISP that limits
the size of the incoming mailbox. mine
was good enough to jam through an email
telling me that mine was filled, so I
used their mail software to empty
it, but it looks as though I must do
that, now, every morning. noticed
that the bayesian filter of Mozilla 1.4
is very effective with all the stuff that
purports to be from microsoft ...

- Don

William Josephson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:53:09PM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>>Well, I had the misfortune to once write a python PEP.  Now I am
>>still getting 2 - 3 *thousand* of the things _every day_, and so
>>are the other PEP writers I have spoken with.  Thank you, thank
>>you Stephen R. van den Berg for procmail.  Never needed it more.
>>
>>I say we all get together, and make a class-action suit against
>>Microsoft for writing operating systems that permit such nonsense.
>>Write this up so that after we deduct our legal costs, we send all
>>the money we are awarded to Amnesty International, or the Red Cross or
>>something.
>
>
> Hear Hear!  I'm not as bad off and a hacked copy of upas running on unix
> is enough to let me reject the vast majority of the crud on the basis of
> SHA1 hash alone, but still it is a real pisser to be wasting resources
> on this much junk.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-23  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-23 15:53 Laura Creighton
2003-09-23 16:03 ` William Josephson
2003-09-23  9:22   ` D. Brownlee [this message]
2003-09-24  8:55   ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-23 16:39 ` Jim Choate
2003-09-23 17:27   ` Dan Cross
2003-09-23 10:40     ` D. Brownlee
2003-09-24  9:23       ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-24  9:30         ` David Presotto
2003-09-24 12:50           ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-23 18:05     ` Jim Choate
2003-09-23 18:56   ` vdharani
2003-09-23 17:43     ` Andrew
2003-09-23 18:49     ` Brantley Coile
2003-09-24  9:22     ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-24 14:20       ` Joel Salomon
2003-09-24 14:50         ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-24 15:35           ` Joel Salomon
2003-09-24 15:12             ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-24  9:06   ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-24  8:54 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-23 19:58 Dennis Ritchie
2003-09-24  9:35 Tiit Lankots

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