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Re: leaking


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:06:03 -0400

On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:41:04 PDT, "Gary E. Miller" said:

last week.  Hundreds of emails to invalid email accounts for every valid
one.  Their poor server could not stand up to the load.

And remember guys - "their poor server" is a huge affair, even months ago it
was bouncing *billions* of spam *per day*, handling all the *real* hotmail and
MSN traffic (which is almost certainly into the hundreds of millions per day),
and actually managing to keep up....

For all the grief I give Microsoft, I *do* have to admit that there's only
a few network-engineering feats of a similar size and scale....

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