Yeah, I was on the summer crew the year of the ethernet... full building patch panels... <shudder><div><br></div><div>I remember George saying that.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Thomas Kula <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kula@tproa.net">kula@tproa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:13:31PM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:<br>
> You probably do remember when they put it in. Summer of 1997 students<br>
> came back to Drake with ethernet in the dorms and brand new POP mail<br>
> (didn't you help install the ethernet?). I think that ES40 server was<br>
> installed at that time to replace the previous QuickMail that employees<br>
> used and the console-based PMDF mail that students had on acad.drake.<br>
> So... the machine is 12 years old. It has been out of service for a bit<br>
> more than 1 year. For 11 years it single-handedly processed all the<br>
> mail for ~15000 POP/IMAP accounts. Now it is time for it to go. <sniff><br>
><br>
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</div>If I remember properly, this is the machine where George Miller<br>
said "If you can deadlift it, you can take it home."<br>
<br>
And, eww, I just remembered, this machine used to run some crufty<br>
C mailbox cleanup code I wrote one summer. I think I still have<br>
a hardcopy of that off in a box somewhere....<br>
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