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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: email flakiness
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: email flakiness |
Date: |
05 Sep 2003 07:48:15 +0900 |
John Goerzen <address@hidden> writes:
> >> What could be the reason?
> >
> > Well, it seems like the mails don't get lost, but take about a day to
> > get here...
>
> Indeed; messages I posted Monday evening finally showed up this
> afternoon. Highly strange.
In case some people missed it, here's something I posted earlier:
A recent FSF status update makes the following point:
Imagine how many Internet-connected Windows boxes have ever stored an
@gnu.org, @fsf.org, or @prep.ai.mit.edu email address on their hard
drives. Now, imagine each of them sending constant email to those
addresses in a multi-threaded way, and you'll get an idea of the load
on the GNU/FSF mail servers that SoBig.F has caused. Our sysadmin has
been baby-sitting the server and the mail queue to make sure that
legitimate mail gets through, SoBig.F traffic doesn't, and that the
system doesn't fall over completely.
-Miles
--
80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen