e-mail problems -- no Jag content

["Kirbert" <palmk@mailer.gadcomm.net>]

I'd kinda like to know if anyone else is having the same problem I am.  
Occasionally, and it's not really all that often, I get a message that, when 
I try to open it to read it, my computer locks up and I have to reboot.  When 
this happens, that same message will ALWAYS lock up the computer, I can do it 
over and over.

At first, I thought these were just random glitches, and simply deleted the 
messages without reading and moved on.  However, worried that I might be 
missing some important messages (ha! from THIS group?), I played around and 
found that my e-mail reader (Pegasus Mail v2.52 for Win16) saved new messages 
in individual files and that it would tell me what files they were.  I found 
that I could open the files in Notepad and read them just fine.

Then I noticed that all such messages seemed to be coming from Jim Isbell. 
I started corresponding with him individually to see if we could isolate the
problem between us.  In the middle of that correspondence, the problem
cleared up!  The last several messages from Isbell worked just fine.

Now I have received a message from someone else that does the same thing.  I 
have opened the message in Notepad and copied the ENTIRE MESSAGE -- headers 
and all -- below.  This one was addressed directly to me, but several of the 
messages that have caused the problems were sent to the jag-lovers group.

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 05:10:59 -0500 (EST)
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To: palmk@mailer.gadcomm.net
Subject: help for the jaguar xjs owner
X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 0

Thanks for the info on the book .I can not find it on the web? help
                                                                      thanks
      



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Does anyone see any problem?  Why does this message lock up my computer?  
Does that last header line, X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 0, mean anything to anybody?

I hate to say this, but this whole thing smacks of a virus -- not the SPREAD 
of a virus, which can't be transmitted via e-mail, but the EFFECTS of a 
virus.  Maybe someone has written some virus that causes all e-mail 
transmitted to cause readers' computers to lock up.  It might not even be in 
the SENDER'S computer, but perhaps in a SERVER'S computer somewhere in 
between.

I tend to think that the problem must be at the other end, since it doesn't 
occur with EVERY message, or even with a significant percentage of them.  But 
it happened with ALL of Isbell's messages for a while, then cleared up, and 
he claims he didn't do anything and neither did I.  I wouldn't be surprised, 
however, to find out that there's something in this version of Pegasus Mail 
(the latest release) that makes it more sensitive to problems like this than 
other e-mail readers.

TIA for any help.

 -- Kirbert      |     If anything is to be accomplished,
                 |     some rules must be broken.
                 |          - Palm's Postulate

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