Re: sco.com Press Release

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:37:04 CST, michael williamson <michael () puffin tamucc edu>  said:
> > ...if they spent an average of 30 minutes cleaning the crap out
> > of their mailboxes...
>
> I'd say they need to consider a better mail client.  I mean, really
> now...

I said "cleaning them out, waiting for important mail, or any other delay
or inconvenience".  Collateral damage works wonders.

If you didn't get the last-minute info from a co-worker before you had to
get on a plane and the corporate mail server was 30 minutes behind, and
your presentation in San Francisco isn't up to date, that's an impact too.

If the corporate mail server falls several hours behind because it gets
whomped by several hundred copies posted to a very large mailing list.
50K users on a "post by list admin only list", the worm manages to spoof
the list owner... 200 postings later you're over a million pieces of mail
in the hole.  And a mail server spec'ed to handle a million pieces of mail
in a day may not enjoy being handed a million in an hour.  And now you're
talking some *serious* collateral damage.

(And don't start in with the "but the mail server should have been designed
to not fall over".  If an even bigger mail system costs more than the
expected loss times then expected frequency, it's not worth doing.  Just
because you tolerate $100 in damage from grafitti artists because you expect
it to happen once a month but keeping the artists out would cost $2,000/year
doesn't mean you're not out $100 if you get tagged.)

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