From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 15:25:52 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Mail bombs from "helpful" Cypherpunks
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At 07:26 PM 5/18/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>As I explain in my message to Steve Schear, I have no way of
>removing such "mail bombs" with my Eudora/POP system until they 
>have been downloaded to my machine (I don't have a shell account anymore).

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.

The old Netcom Netcruiser mail client software let you download
just the headers and then pick what messages to read ; I don't know
if the new NetComplete stuff does that or not.  Netcruiser was ugly
and somewhat broken, but occasionally did useful things.


#			Thanks;  Bill
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