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At 12:29 AM 4/25/98 -0400, you wrote: >If any of you happened to have sent me a message between 11:30 this morning >and 3:00 one of them was either "too large" or "corrupted" according to AT&T >and jammed up my e-mail so badly I had to go into some part of Windows 95 I >never heard of called Telnet to fix it. I had to delete 10 message without >even knowing who they came from. So please, do NOT re-send them. And, >please, if you feel they were important - and why wouldn't they be! - >paraphrase and send in another message. What a time waster that was - took >6 phone calls to AT&T to fix. Probably no ones fault. Telnet - I thought >that was a corporation. Bill Gates must have bought it. Telnet has been around for a long time. It is a terminal emulation program for TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (the primary Internet communications protocol)) networks such as the Internet. The Telnet program runs on your computer and connects your PC to a server on the network. You can then enter commands through the Telnet program and they will be executed as if you were entering them directly on the server console. This enables you to control the server and communicate with other servers on the network. To start a Telnet session, you must log in to a server by entering a valid username and password. Telnet is the most common way to remotely control Web servers. In the future, if said event occurs again, you might try looking at the size of the message files before deleting them. If the Server is an NT (new technology) server, DOS (disk operating system)commands such as "dir" (directory) should be able to be executed and in the results the size of the message files will be listed. With a Unix Server try the command "ls" (list). It will also render a list of message files with their sizes. In either case, delete just the largest. How do you know if the server is NT or Unix? Try each command. One should work. Hopefully, this message won't get lost in the silent cacophony of our cyber space messaging system. Hang in there. Jeff [log in to unmask]