Swen Overloads Email Inbox Limits
From: tom w. (t.whicker_spamnot_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/20/03
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:03:33 -0700
Changing your established email address is not a trivial
thing. There are many people with your old address that
you will not be able to contact or that you do not have
their email address to send them the address change info.
Also, you've got to fix all your Ebay, Paypal, items
listed for sale at various pages, etc. Not trivial
and not something an ISP should expect its patrons
to do at the drop of a hat.
Again, Earthlink support says, "It's not our problem,
just change your email address".
>-----Original Message-----
>With EarthLink, you can have multiple mailboxes. Just go
>to their support page and follow the instructions to
>create a new e-mail address. (No extra charge). You can
>still keep your old one if you want, just use the new one
>as your "default" e-mail address. The old mailbox will
>still fill up, but that shouldn't affect the new address.
>
>The only flaw with this solution is that when you give
>people your new e-mail address, you'll probably be giving
>it to the unsuspecting individual whose computer is
>infected with the virus and, once he/she puts your address
>in his/her address book, the virus will start mailing
>itself out to you again.
>
>I received a batch of infected e-mail today. I checked
>the message "properties" and was able to discover whose
>computer was really sending me these messages (not the one
>shown on the "From" line). I was then able to notify the
>real sender that their computer was infected. (I don't
>use web mail so I don't know if it has that feature. I
>use Outlook Express). They took steps to rectify the
>situation and I stopped receiving the infected e-mails.
>
>If they had not been willing or able to go through the
>steps to remove the virus, I would have asked them to
>remove my e-mail address from their address book. If it
>isn't in their computer's e-mail address book, it isn't
>available for the virus to use.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I'm getting the swen at about 200 per day. It overloads
>>my inbox limit before I can even get on webmail and
>>delete the messages (10meg limit with Earthlink).
>>
>>Earthlink tech support says it's not their problem and
>>that I should contact Microsoft support. I take this
>>as an insult! Obviously Microsoft can't do anything
>>about the spread at this point.
>>
>>It should be up to the ISP to block the swen with some
>>type of firewall. Their tech people don't seem to
>>have a clue. They said their only suggestion was to
>>change my email address.
>>
>>Please note that this problem cannot be solved by
>>antivirus software or by installing the Microsoft
>>official patch. It is a problem of email flooding
>>the ISP, resulting in denial of survice.
>>
>>Tom W.
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>
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