Hi all,
After many problems with IE and Outlook Express, I dumped it
2 years ago and now only use Netscape which has a good
security system and eliminated a lot of the email and
internet problems. Netscape is also not affected by many of
the virus programs out there targeted to IE.
Brian
"Sperduto, Nick" wrote:
>
> I had a problem similiar to this once with my home email setup. But att has
> the option of downloading email to outlook or reading through a web browser.
> I pulled up my inbox on the web browser and saw which message was so large
> and deleted it without reading it, the wenbt on my merry way
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Finch [mailto:richard@STARKWEATHER.FREESERVE.CO.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 2:23 PM
> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU
> Subject: [FWDLK] Strange e-mail
>
> Hello,
>
> On Friday 12 or Saturday 13, a message was sent out on either Forward Look
> or 300 mailing list about choke wells.
>
> This message is preventing me from receiving mail from this point in my
> message queue onwards. At least, I can't think what else the problem could
> be. I'm currently unable to retrieve this and the following 110+ messages.
>
> Eventually I get a timeout (even set to 5 minutes) that this message could
> not be retrieved. The partial title 'choke wells' is given within the error
> text.
>
> I have asked my ISP to delete the first 4 messages in my queue but so far
> they have ignored me.
>
> It looks like I will have to abandon this account and start all over again.
>
> Assuming I am right that there is something unusual about this 'choke well'
> message, I remind senders not to send anything other than plain text
> messages.
>
> This has really screwed me up. I'm sending my fax number to people I would
> normally receive e-mails from.
>
> Don't reply to me - I can't receive anything!
>
> Richard.
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