I think that my long-held [EMAIL PROTECTED] address will have to be euthanised. It has been getting many tens of thousands of messages a day, nearly all false bounces or (ironically) warnings from virus-checking software, and even just the CPU load for the procmail filtering for those messages (I can catch over 90% of them) is more than any ISP is willing to take on. I'm able to keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] alive, fortunately, but I'll have to pick a new [EMAIL PROTECTED] address for myself.
Thus I, who do not use Outlook or Windows, have ended up a victim of that software. I've lost my well-known e-mail address (published in books, magazine and newspaper articles, and Web sites) and have possibly missed out on consulting work and other opportunities, not to mention a week's lost time dealing with the problem. Note that the people who use virus-checking software are doing me as much damage than the people without it, because of all the false virus warning messages being sent to me automatically. As I explained to someone recently, using Outlook to read e-mail is like licking public toilets; using Outlook with a virus checker is like taking antibiotics and then licking public toilets (it might work, but it's hardly optimal). Please, people, if you have a choice, don't read e-mail with Outlook, or at least, don't read the flightgear lists with that program. I know that some of you are forced to use Outlook at work, but there's no excuse for using it at home or school. Just say no: there are many decent alternatives even for Windows, such as Eudora and Mozilla mail. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
