Unsolicited emails
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You're a helpful person. In many ways, this is bad for you, but good for the rest of us... ;) Shog9 ------
Sitting in muddy water isn't such a bad life, if it ends after the first time... - Yoko Kanno, The Real Folk Blues
Yeah, I can relate to that. A few years ago I built an FAQ about developing for the VMU (the teeny pda-memory card for the dreamcast) - most of the info was culled from mailing lists and message boards (standing on the shoulders of giants.) I still get people sending blatantly stupid emails (either not relating to development, such as "Can you hack this game save for me so I've got infinite lives??" or ones that prove the mailer has just found the faq, clicked on the email link, and sent a message straight off, without actually reading the faq at all (or posting a question to the mailing lists / message boards) I used to reply with a link back to the relevant answer in the FAQ, but I find myself bothering less and less (especially as I've no-longer got direct FTP access to the places where the FAQ still lives on the web, and the email address given now just gives a "this email account is no longer used due to spam abuse if you're a real person, please email me here.." message , that seems to be too cryptic for them to actually understand (heh, I remember when Bigfoot would filter spam for free - now it seems they sign you up for it and then try and sell you the filtering options) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Am I the only one who gets people emailing their projects to you ? My email is stuffed today, because of a 3 MB file, most of which is compiler generated files which should have been deleted, and because my mail program cannot finish the job, I get three emails prior to this one and this one, every time I check my mail. I dunno why, when I check it with webmail or manually, it claims the mailbox is empty. Where is it coming from ? Why am I cursed ? Why did I still try and help this person ? Why is my life LIKE this ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
You could try http://www.mail2web.com[^] - it's a pop3 webmail interface that'll work with any email account - it might be able to see and thus let you delete the messages that your normal webmail can't -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!