Now, if *Two Persons* set up autoresponders to the list... shades of
"Deliverance"... sounds of "Dueling Banjos" in the background.
At 10:51 AM -0500 1/15/01, Cameron Childress wrote:
>Math time. I'm making a couple of assumptions here, but let's say that two
>lists with one thousand subscribers each had just one person who did this.
>
>200 messages * avg 2k per message * 1000 subscribers * two lists
>
>= 800,000k
>
>That's a little more than 781megs... and 400,000 individual messages.
>Probably sent within a fairly short time period. Now the listserver is
>choking on all the mail, and MD's probably getting quite a few nasty-grams.
>CF-Talk is slowed to a 5 hour turnaround on new messages... Etc...
>
>Is that math even right? That's a crazy amount of mail...
>
>-Cameron
>
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