rialian.com out of space revisited
Sep. 18th, 2005 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99Mystery solved.
44,090 email messages stored on server.
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rialian had forgotten to click the little checkbox in his email client to delete messages from server upon download... So we had 226 meg of spam stored in perpetuity upon rialian.com...
Of course, I didn't think of checking this until after my ISP/web host reminded me (in response to my frantically asking them if there was some huge, invisible file with tentacles in my documents area). So after a week of backing up and deleting all my journal pictures, (and a picture is worth 1000 words), I come to find out that the 226 offending meg were...
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spam.
Poorrialian felt so bad... The scary thing is, the 44,090 email messages accumulated only since he set up the G3, which wasn't too long ago.
Now to start putting all my picture files back so my journals don't look like poor, bereft skeletons.
44,090 email messages stored on server.
rialian had forgotten to click the little checkbox in his email client to delete messages from server upon download... So we had 226 meg of spam stored in perpetuity upon rialian.com...Of course, I didn't think of checking this until after my ISP/web host reminded me (in response to my frantically asking them if there was some huge, invisible file with tentacles in my documents area). So after a week of backing up and deleting all my journal pictures, (and a picture is worth 1000 words), I come to find out that the 226 offending meg were...
...
...
...
spam.
Poor
rialian felt so bad... The scary thing is, the 44,090 email messages accumulated only since he set up the G3, which wasn't too long ago. Now to start putting all my picture files back so my journals don't look like poor, bereft skeletons.