We recently moved from one network to another here at state.  Before the
move we informed the systems staff that we are sending between 20 and 60
thousand emails a day currently.  They said no problem.  Needless to say as
soon as we made the switch it completely overloaded their servers.  We just
started getting mail again today.  I had 1300 emails from the last two days
alone.

BTW if anyone has sent me anything in the last week that I didn't reply to
please send it again as a lot of mail was lost.

Timothy Heald
Overseas Security Advisory Council
U.S. Department of State 


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:10 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Bill's long download


Today, AT&T cut a backbone fiber leading into KY, so everyone dependent on
them for internet (like all the Alltel customers) (including Moonbow) went
internetless.  After lunch, we set up an Apple Airport to dial into
Earthlink (which apparently uses a different backbone).

So I checked my mail.

I was sure something was wrong.  I mean, how many emails from Bill Wheatley
can there be regarding the question thread?  That's got to be the same
message downloading multiple times, right?

Dear god, Bill.  You make me glad I'm usually on fast DSL.

*sigh*  Well, now that they're all downloaded, all that's left is for me to
read it all....

:-)


--  Ben "creeping along the internet" Doom
    Programmer & General Lackey
    Moonbow Software, Inc



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