From: khijol!erc (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 05:55:38 PDT
To: hugh@toad.com
Subject: Re: ADMIN: MajorDomo Meltdown
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>   Humm, seems as I have my work cut out for me tonight, as majordomo
> zeroed out the list again and is having problems with it's temp files
> (filling up a second disk here at toad.com).
>   Eric Hughes and I freed up 15 megs on the disk where majordomo keeps
> the cypherpunks list, and I tought that would give me the time to do
> the fix right (and speend the weekend not hacking...).  Turns out that
> the disk filled up again tonight, this time with 12+ megs of bounce
> messages from Cypherpunks subscribers durring the last 9 days.
>   Seems we have some major problems to solve still with the basic mail
> list technology.
>   I have 11 hours to make a major meeting, so I am going to go back to
> hacking the software and see how much I can get running tonight.
>   I will install a backup from a few days ago, some of you will have
> duplacates that we will have to remove yet again, sigh, thats the way
> it goes.

Reminds me of the old saying, "if builders built buildings the way 
programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would 
destroy civilization."  I won't start on my rant as to this is one major 
reason I hate shell scripts... no, I'll keep my big fly-trap shut (for 
once)...
- -- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3	ecarp@netcom.com, Ed.Carp@linux.org

"What's the sense of trying hard to find your dreams without someone to share
it with, tell me, what does it mean?"        -- Whitney Houston, "Run To You"

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