Ghost in the Machine....

[Dr Mordrid]

http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_060529.html

Why, oh why, can't M$ software be this smart?

Dr. Mordrid

[Whirl-Secret]

If you think MS stuff is dumb, our mail server didn't work this morning (yesterday was a holiday) because 3 of our users had auto-replies on, and were DDOSing (and being ddossed) by 3 other ppl with auto-replies on. Had 60,000 mails in the system from the weekend, and since they are stored in a text database (eww) we couldn't even start up the service.

Heh

[High_Jumbllama]

One auto-reply per day per sending account per receiving account would avoid such a problem almost entirely would it not?

[dbdg]

One auto-reply per holiday period per sending account per receiving account would avoid such a problem almost entirely would it not?

Or, as we have it at work.

[Whirl-Secret]

One auto-reply per day per sending account per receiving account would avoid such a problem almost entirely would it not?

That would be clever, we're talking about our stupid software

[Nowhere]

Wasn't Deep Space 1 a bit "loud" in your place in regard to its autonomy? (autonav and remote agent, btw, found fun link: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html )

[Dr Mordrid]

DS1 was indeed a good example of autonomy. It even suprised its designers by making adjustments in ways they hadn't specifically designed. Lots of potential there....

Dr. Mordrid