OT: Automated message from BT

[Peter B]

From my inbox:

"Hello [email protected],

You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota
by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of
storage but you are currently using 0.8MB of storage. Your
account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new
messages."

How do I get my usage into minus figures? ;-)

--
Regards, Pete

 

[Mark Tranchant]

Peter B wrote:

> From my inbox:
>
> "Hello [email protected],
>
> You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota
> by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of
> storage but you are currently using 0.8MB of storage. Your
> account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new
> messages."
>
> How do I get my usage into minus figures? ;-)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/1226202&mode=th-
read&tid=126&tid=95 explains why the move to 2GB. Maybe they
need to set some users' mailboxes to -2GB to make sure they
have enough space?

--
Mark.

 

[Pete Biggs]

Peter B wrote:
> From my inbox:
>
> "Hello [email protected],
>
> You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota
> by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of
> storage but you are currently using 0.8MB of storage. Your
> account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new
> messages."
>
> How do I get my usage into minus figures? ;-)

Try deleting the spam using http://www.mail2web.com/

~PB

 

[Wirral John]

"Peter B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From my inbox:
>
> "Hello [email protected],
>
> You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota
> by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of
> storage but you are currently using 0.8MB of storage. Your
> account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new
> messages."
>
> How do I get my usage into minus figures? ;-)
>
> --
> Regards, Pete
>
>

On the off chance that you havn't sorted this out, the BT
support helpline has a message saying it's a cockup and to
ignore it.

Cheers John

 

[Ambrose Nankive]

In news:[email protected],
Mark Tranchant <[email protected]> typed:
> Peter B wrote:
>
>> From my inbox:
>>
>> "Hello [email protected],
>>
>> You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage
>> quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -
>> 2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 0.8MB of
>> storage. Your account has been temporarily disabled from
>> receiving new messages."
>>
>> How do I get my usage into minus figures? ;-)
>
>
>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/1226202&mode=th-
read&tid=126&tid= 95
> explains why the move to 2GB. Maybe they need to set
> some users' mailboxes to -2GB to make sure they have
> enough space?

Or they used a 32 bit signed int, and you were lucky enough
to be given the full 2 gigs = 2^31 = -1

A