On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:56, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:16:03AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > | On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > | > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: [snip] > | > | Totally disagree. > | > | Before MSBlaster & sobig.f made their appearance, the debian- lists > | were responding very quickly. > > Sometimes it's fast, and sometimes the server is overloaded and > message turnaround can be 5 or 6 hours. One time murphy ran out of > inodes on its disk, and thus was having a lot of trouble processing > mail. Another time the spam-scanning system there went haywire and > caused long delays. Sometimes an overload of junk (spam, virus, or > the loads of autoresponder crap that follows the virus) overloads the > system causing delays. > > You could just sit tight and be patient during the slow times, or you > could donate more resources to help combat the crap that wastes the > resources SPI already has.
So, in other words, it's all Microsoft's fault? ;-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between Rock&Roll and Country Music? Old Rockers still on tour are pathetic, but old Country singers are still great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
