TER General Board
The volume from the latest mail worm has been extremely high. Our mail relay/filter has been so innodated, that it has been taking about 1 hour for legit emails to be processed today alone. Most of my Gov't client are also experiencing the same levels of congestion. My advice is to make sure your anti-virus is up to date. I'll email you using the TER email with more info.
OOPS my membership has expire...never mind. It sounds like your provider (ISP...not otherwise 
) does not have anti-virus for their mailserver. Or if they do, they are not running it due to volume. Unfortunately, I would bet you are using POP to get your mail. The only way to clear you mail spool is to have your ISP do it for you (and delete all your messages in the process) or download the message and let your anti-virus clean it up. A robust mail client like Eudora should handle that volume of traffic, assuming your computer is reasonable modern (last 3 years). Still, that volume of messages will be slow. If you are on dialup, it will be even worse. If you are on Dialup, Eudora has an option to only download the header information from the email server. That way you are not downloading the body of the message (I.E. the virus), and things will move alittle faster. Once you have all the headers, you can pick the messages you want to delete without downloading the entire message. The next time you check mail, Eudora will delete the messages.
You live in my area, so if you would like, I will be happy to give you a call. I could give you better information if I had a little more to go on.
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