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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:22:38 +0000
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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.
>