Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: gnu mail servers

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > 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.  This has taken substantial time
    >     away from the crack recovery tasks.
    > 


Shame on industry for the state of:

      http://savannah.gnu.org/phpsysinfo/




-t