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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: How can I remain calm?
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.045700.11226@acheron.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 89 04:57:00 GMT
References: <547@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <547@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>, by mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch):
> [Re: what happens when you send out a global sendsys...]
> 	8,000 * 2048 = 16,384,000 ~= 16.4 MB
> You would hope that wouldn't blow too many mail spool disks, but perhaps
> so.  The real squeeze, the one I forgot since we do not run UUCP

Last year (December) I sent out a 'sendsys' with a NY distribution.
Somehow it multiplied so that rochester.edu got 22 requests from me
within a span of ten hours ... I still haven't figured out how it
happened and have no intention of trying it again.

So you only hope it's 16 meg -
-- 
Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke