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[Lathrop Preston]

Yeah, I was on the summer crew the year of the ethernet... full building
patch panels... <shudder>
I remember George saying that.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Thomas Kula <kula at tproa.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:13:31PM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> > You probably do remember when they put it in. Summer of 1997 students
> > came back to Drake with ethernet in the dorms and brand new POP mail
> > (didn't you help install the ethernet?). I think that ES40 server was
> > installed at that time to replace the previous QuickMail that employees
> > used and the console-based PMDF mail that students had on acad.drake.
> > So... the machine is 12 years old. It has been out of service for a bit
> > more than 1 year. For 11 years it single-handedly processed all the
> > mail for ~15000 POP/IMAP accounts. Now it is time for it to go. <sniff>
> >
>
> If I remember properly, this is the machine where George Miller
> said "If you can deadlift it, you can take it home."
>
> And, eww, I just remembered, this machine used to run some crufty
> C mailbox cleanup code I wrote one summer. I think I still have
> a hardcopy of that off in a box somewhere....
>
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