SCN: Thursday's system problems.

[J. Johnson]

Thursday's system problems have been traced to a problem with a single
user's mail:  over 10,000 messages--large messages!--were received for
this one user.  This user has various e-mail accounts, and apparently set
up a forwarding loop; this clogged our communications and processes, and
one key process shutdown, which disabled logins for a while.  (An upgrade
of that process is planned.) 

It seems to me that this shows that the Internet still retains some of
it's original cooperative nature:  anyone can cause a wreck; the scarcity
of wrecks shows that cooperating is the norm.  

=== JJ =============================================================

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