Had a call from a mate of mine telling me that his e-mails he was sending to me were being bounced.
After a lot of chasing around, I discover that my free web based e-mail service is so chock of garbage courtesy of the Sobig virus, that they have had to shut up shop to sort it out. I posted on a board in Oz & discover that even some of the Universities have had ten times the normal amount of traffic & are in a state of chaos.
I haven't been infected, but apparently this mongrel thing is so big it is closing entire service providers down.
The moral of the story is, that if all of a sudden you find your e-mail inbox is constantly empty when you expect at least a bit of action, check the status of your account & find out if you are being starved of mail due to this thing.
From what I understand, anything sent to you that is bounced, won't resend once the service is back up & running, so better hope that nothing important is sent.
Alan S
Is your e-mail off the air & you don't know it?
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