To prevent any such disaster, Allegro, an outsourced messaging company, on Tuesday began offering a free e-mail attachment filter -- it specifically blocks messages that include the Star Wars file as an attachment.
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'Star Wars' trailer needs filtering out
Network administrators might be less than thrilled that the latest "Star Wars" trailer is available on the Internet: at 22 megabytes, the file could cause a significant slowdown of the corporate network.
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