Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/30/01 11:36 PM, Andrew W. Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:51 PM -0700 8/29/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Visto, ZDNetOneBox and Yahoo all used to give you web space. Big move away from that for some reason. They discovered that there's no money in providing a free service for

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-31 Thread Amber Rhea
Has anyone tried Mac Punk? http://www.macpunk.com My friend has an account there and has said only good things about it. -- *** Amber Rhea *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tangerinecs.com/~amber For great justice -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew Michael MacTao
Flicker wrote: . And if you don't keep important data on it, you just format the disk and reinstall. A half-hour process that keeps you healthy. Or, just use VirtualPC. Install Windoze whatever apps you want make a backup copy of your hard file to CD... You can play with viri to your

Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Adam
Hi all, Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks Rather lame English, huh? Examination of the attached letter reveals it to be a file

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks This is SirCam. Symantic's SARC has a rather nice explanation of it. A friend of mine

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Flicker
: Stupid email trick warning. Hi all, Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks Rather lame English, huh? Examination

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Cameron Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks This is SirCam. Symantic's

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Steve Moody
At 9:40 AM -0700 8/29/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Some of these are apparently even working on Outlook Express for Mac now. Won't bother your apps etc but can forward themselves to everyone in your address book or inbox etc. Microsoft. Helping computer viruses go cross platform since 2001.

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Amber Rhea
on 8/29/01 12:08 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks Rather

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread William Ahearn
I'm surprised you haven't gotten it sooner or at least HEARD of it before now. It's the Sircam virus that everybody's been whining about. I have gotten it about four times. And I just sit back and feel very smug and superior, since I use a Mac and am therefore immune. Not to be

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread the pickle
At 12:10 -0400 on 29/08/01, Flicker wrote: The nice thing about using a Wintel machine on the internet is the thrill of avoiding viruses, no? Which is why you should do your real work on an offline Mac, and let Windows take the punches on the net. The ONLY thing that works good on Windows is IE

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm surprised you haven't gotten it sooner or at least HEARD of it before now. It's the Sircam virus that everybody's been whining about. I have gotten it about four times. And I just sit back and feel very smug and superior, since I use a Mac and

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/29/01 2:07 PM, Amber Rhea at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/29/01 12:08 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Today I got an email from one Steven Pinette entitles Dialog letter june. The text of this letter reads: Hi! How are you? I send you this file in

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread william ahearn
you're right of course - Original Message - From: the pickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Stupid email trick warning. Uh...WHAT? How about just throwing the Windoze box out the window and doing your

Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Flicker
29, 2001 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Stupid email trick warning. Ha! I use Yahoo Mail and don't have to worry about any viri because they have it fixed so no attachment can do anything unless the user is dumb enough to download it and run AND bypass their virus scanning

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread the pickle
At 20:25 -0400 on 29/08/01, Flicker wrote: Yahoo is great, but what other e-mail services are out there for Macs that are geared JUST for Macs? And which ones come with web storage, or Mac-PC I can't think of any geared solely for Macs but there are a ton of web-based e-mail places out there

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Well, as of last night I decided that I was fed up with Entourage (same as Outlook) and was going back to Eudora. There are some minor details I liked better about the Entourage, but mostly it's getting on my nerves. And I like the filters in Eudora better. But last night, as soon as I inserted

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread william ahearn
Heard of satire, pickle? Or do you bristle so immediately at the very mention of a PC, that all further thought is halted? Satire? Humor? This is a serious email list about serious subjects. Injection of humor could make this fun and well, we just can't have that. William all the little geeks

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread the pickle
At 21:02 -0400 on 29/08/01, Amber Rhea wrote: on 8/29/01 5:38 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nice thing about using a Wintel machine on the internet is the thrill of avoiding viruses, no? Which is why you should do your real work on an offline Mac, and let Windows take

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Alex Allee
on 8/29/01 5:59 PM, Amber Rhea at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: until I removed the Zip disk. I think someone from M$ may be trying to manipulate me from above... :P *ahem* Above? :) -- Alex Allee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit EnigMac! Updated 07/29/2001

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Flicker
email trick warning. At 20:25 -0400 on 29/08/01, Flicker wrote: Yahoo is great, but what other e-mail services are out there for Macs that are geared JUST for Macs? And which ones come with web storage, or Mac-PC I can't think of any geared solely for Macs but there are a ton of web-based e

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Flicker
Is that the auto-inject humor or the manual with the black door? - Original Message - From: william ahearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vintage Macs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:09 PM Subject: Re: Stupid email trick warning. Injection of humor could make this fun

Re: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Amber Rhea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/29/01 5:38 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft. Helping computer viruses go cross platform since 2001. Mind if I quote you on that one, Gregg? ;) Go ahead, have fun with it. :) = The earth swarms with inhabitants.

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Flicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visto, ZDNetOneBox and Yahoo all used to give you web space. Big move away from that for some reason. They discovered that there's no money in providing a free service for thousands of people to suck up bandwidth, even paid for by advertising that nobody

Re: Best web-mail for Mac, was RE: Stupid email trick warning.

2001-08-29 Thread Steve Moody
At 10:51 PM -0700 8/29/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Visto, ZDNetOneBox and Yahoo all used to give you web space. Big move away from that for some reason. They discovered that there's no money in providing a free service for thousands of people to suck up bandwidth, even paid for by