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title: "Finally some helpful code!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/23/finally-some-helpful-code.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/23/finally-some-helpful-code.html"
published: "2003-08-23T20:30:00"
updated: "2003-08-23T20:30:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I don't know any german, but it looks like Ralf Westphal posted some seriously cool code that deletes email messages from your POP3 mail account that are sent by the worm. What's so cool is just how simple the code is.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Finally some helpful code!

By Roy Osherove August 23, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 23, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I don't know any german, but it looks like [Ralf Westphal](https://osherove.com/ralfw)  posted some [seriously cool code](http://weblogs.asp.net/ralfw/posts/25116.aspx) that deletes email messages from your POP3 mail account that are sent by the worm. What's so cool is just how simple the code is. Coolness strikes yet again!

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