oh no! more pictures sent.

Sean and I get all the problem messages from Medit-Plants. A couple of years ago these would be real problems - someone's server was down and messages were bouncing. When AOL would go down for a few days, there would be a lot of bounced messages. Or a member would be trying to post from work when he was subscribed only from home. It was a pleasure to solve the problems.

Now, it is almost always spam that lands in our mailboxes. Dozens of messages a day. It still requires a quick look to make sure it isn't a genuine problem.

Last week we got giant error messages when some members' service providers rejected a message with four pictures attached. Those members with high speed internet access were able to see the pictures, but others couldn't. Sean sent a message asking for pictures not to be sent to the list, but placed on a picture-hosting website and just the url sent to Medit-Plants.

I had already deleted all those error messages, but today there are six more. I don't know whether they are from the same picture posting, or from another one. I thought you might be interested in seeing how some computers "read" pictures.

Here is a sample from one of the six error messages. This is only a few lines - this message had 60 screenfuls of this stuff. Running it through a base64 decoder shows that this message contains 6 pictures - or 10 screenfuls of code per picture.

cYAhF2oEYae4BCSh0Kx8RICg2VVb1PQf7Lt6n9+iSZXwgD+j+P8AftgJVmtJ5rePUJ3iRZAJJKMi
FVUooAX4frDeoPS4cefqf7qTD4BAseqCOKzv9SJ9SSRRFDBHak+r9dlkQO6emVFIUlTgss9eEavJ
+x/dw5VEQ6+ri/2DORl0UUjs2hkZW4XKSh5Lwl/WdGIZaSEep6fw+n6X918GA5cnEECIov8A/9SQ
zWVlx/SDQrNdELFeR1IPqSnj9ZjQ/tMDyXOMhORjz9LveGpcP+z/AN4ktvp0zQtGI+EW6tM6EN6l

T/uxiqf6/wAf/FnPMieUA2wjEkcP/SaEiuLqzj9OSGR4krHdW4IryYekeX2vt8ua/wA/95l84CRu

		Diane Whitehead
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