On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:13, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2003 09:39, David Mandala wrote:
> > That was my first thought too, but we verified that that is not the
> > case, he got several 500k .zip file attachments during the time I was
> > trying to send a 30k attachment. No there is something else going on but
> > with COX being silly there is no way to figure it out. As soon as cash
> > flow allows COX is toast, I've already dropped them for TV service all
> > that was left was Internet and that is gone as soon as I can afford to
> > switch.
> >
> > I'm in the process of setting up a tunnel to my machine on the Internet
> > and using my own machine to relay. Then at least I can see what the
> > traffic is doing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Davidm
>
> Some ISPs and businesses strip or drop emails with attachments known to
> potentially carry viruses. This would be .vbs .pif .exe and .zip, amoung
> others. I would suspect that somewhere along the way, someone's virus
> software is dumping your email.
>
> I would have thought it was his end until you pointed out that he has recieved
> .zip files from other places. Puzzling...
>
> Alan
>
I had thought that perhaps it was anti-virus software so I also send a
separate email. with the 30k file as a .dmf file. Same result. The fact
that he is receiving .zip files from other people does make it puzzling
indeed.
Oh well at least I have a server on the net that I could put the file on
and allow him to grab it from there.
Davidm
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