Re: [Leica] network storms

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

AHA! Glad you told us- I had heard about the train, dereiled in a tunnel ,
and leaking hydrochloric acid, and heard that a cable had been severed, but
you never think that something that far away from NC will actually affect
you, let alone a computer in Califronia!!
Gee Golly God, Mr. Wizard! The world sure is getting small!
Dan ( Until you want to buy a ticket to Hawaii!) Post
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: [Leica] network storms


> There's been the Internet equivalent of a hurricane this week, supposedly
caused by a fire in a tunnel in Baltimore that destroyed thousands of
strands of fiber optic cable. Like every other mail server around,
mejac.palo-alto.ca.us has been overwhelmed by it. The symptoms are that you
will see avalanches of several-day-old mail. I haven't yet figured out
whether I can do anything about it, and my options are limited because I'm
on a dialup thousands of miles from my computers. But I'll be home tomorrow,
in case the problem is persistent and in case there is something I can do
about it.
>
> This morning there were 35,000 undelivered mail messages waiting on mejac
for delivery. They were undelivered because it had not been possible to
deliver them earlier.
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