Pete has a few things to say...

[Chrono Archangel]

Ill just copy and paste itll be faster


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August 26, 2003 - Sweet silence

Aaaahh... sweet email silence... no complains... no bug reports... no cries for help. Prolly all of my plugin users are happy. Yeah, nothing to improve, that's it.

Of course there is a small chance that most emails nowadays not even reach my public mail address. That most people who try to mail will get a reply like "box is full, try later". Could be. Mmmm, wassup? I should check for emails more often? Tooooo laaaaazy, you say?

Well, I check the public "BlackDove@addcom.de" address once per day. And yeah, it's a _very_ public address (I post it on my site, in messageboards, etc). So it always was plagued by spam and virus mails. 100 mails each day, and maybe 3 ones out of the 100 are no spam/virus ones.

But that was never a problem to me. I am using a small but fine email client. Yeah, it has no "ActiveWhatever" features, and no MS-Internet-Explorer-powered blablabla views, etc. Instead it has an easy and powerful filter system. Which I find much more useful, I have to admit.

Because 97 garbage mails a day, well, that was a few weeks ago... that was before SoBig.F, harhar. Nowadays I see roughly 250 mails when I check for mails. Which means: after 250 SoBig.F infected mails, my public box is full.

Of course my email client will delete most of them already on the server (did I mention filters?), so it just takes a few seconds to get rid off them.

But a few minutes later, the public box will be full again. The next 250 virus mails have arrived.

Sidenote: the few mails which are not getting filtered are mostly some automatic replies from servers which are telling me that my BlackDove address has tried to send a virus infected mail to them. I consider such replies as really useless, since virus mails can fake the sender address easily (and in my case it's even more useless, since I only can receive but not send mails on my BlackDove account - sending requires a special dial-up connection, and I never did one, I even cannot remember/find the needed phone number anymore, ehe). If you ever see a mail with "BlackDove..." as sender, delete it asap... I haven't send it, which means: 100% virus.

But eeehhh, whatareyousaying? I should change my public address? What for? It will be flooded again in short time. So, of course, the only solution is, was, and ever will be: don't go after the symptoms, go for the root of troubles.

And since the trouble is not on my system, but on yours (yeah, I mean especially _yours_), I can lean back and relax and wait until _you_ have fixed it. It's your responsibility, not mine.

Ain't that hard, you know? If you don't like full-grown antivirus scanner and/or personal firewalls for whatever reasons (yeah, I know, loosing 0.34556321 frames per second in Counterstrike because of some security backgrund task is horrible), you can use a simple and small SoBig.F killer like the Symantec one. A simple 180 KB download
(for the Symantec W32.Sobig.F Removal Tool, a link can be found here: http://download.t-online.de/dl_detai...l?progid=21067), run it, done (at least until the next virus mutation will show up, harhar).

Mmm... but please don't hurry.

You know, sweet silence...

Means more time for me to play the new Gothic2 addon

[Kirby]

sheesh...everyone is getting hit by that SoBig virus. Lucky I have Yahoo mail ^__^

>>Ill just copy and paste itll be faster

why...were you planning to type it out all over again?

[spajdr-X]

well problem in Dark Forces is not my problem,it worked few releases of pete video plugin ago,and now its messed again (well it messed few releases already) i dont complain, im just saying that problem is still there.

[Recca]

Just don't open mails that are 100kb+ with the that tells "Please see attached file for Details"

If had like 2 encounters with this. Also for the note, the file extension is .pif
So just delete large mails, unless they are from friends whom addresses you know are really there's.

[Chrono Archangel]

Originally Posted by spajdr-X

well problem in Dark Forces is not my problem,it worked few releases of pete video plugin ago,and now its messed again (well it messed few releases already) i dont complain, im just saying that problem is still there.

this thread isnt intended for request about bug fixes....

[GSDragoon]

I want to know what E-Mail client Pete uses that is so good. Outlook Express is pissing me off.

Outlook itself doesnt have filters .. get some addon that filters spam and virii etc .

[Yeloazndevil]

>>sheesh...everyone is getting hit by that SoBig virus. Lucky I have Yahoo mail ^__^

I use yahoo mail and I get hit with the W32.Sobig.F@mm

Yahoo update their filters quickly, it should be dealt with soon. i have my ISP's email , with normal outlook express .. not a single virus so far (not SoBig, no worms like codered etc, not blaster .. nothing )

[zenogais]

I use Mozilla for email. It has the Bayesian Filtering which rocks!! I set up its built-in filters and now I never even see spam and I never got infected by that SoBig or any other virus.

[dpence]

My isp has a web based email system, so all my lail is never ever pulled onto my system, it's openeed on the email server...saves me a lot of hassle..plus I never have to view the attachment without seeing the complete name and extension and file type...(bonus of the webmail interface)

Aye, i like Thunderbird too. great client ^^

but i cant use mozilla here, since my dad is used to IE (even though i can make his link open up in IE and others in mozilla) so i wont confuse him .

2nd reason would be that still most sites online are designed for IE , aka looking bad in mozilla ..

[Boltzmann]

Bad (or maybe they're good) news for Pete

Fortunately I never got a mail with SoBig.F (and I also use Yahoo).

I hope he recovers soon

[spajdr-X]

Originally Posted by Chrono Archange

this thread isnt intended for request about bug fixes....

Yes .. just pointing to the words,that its maybe my fault .. and besides in plugin troubleshooting Pete didnt answer to this problem,so i post it here also,since maybe he overlooked it.

[Shin_Gouki]

I think Chrono Archange that spajdr-X is right... he posted his problems but there was no reaction...
is there a "general" thread where he can post his problem AND Pete does read it?
If so PLZ give a link
if not why don´t create it(even tough somehow Pete should notice that...or else the thread is usless like spajdr-X old problem thread)?
i think it´s a good idea to gather the problems with Petes new plugins in a thread (one for 1.xx and on for OGL 2.xx)
somebody has just to convince all people to use it ^_~
- just an idea... -
wbr Shin Gouki