No, the person (me) who did the quick calculation from the figures the admin provided needs to remember math. 30/min x 60 mins/hour x 24 hours works out to (David, use the calculator this time!) = 43,200/day. Our mail server at the office only had to handle 27,000 emails today. I don't know how many turned out to be worms, but it was too many for many of our users. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 21 Aug 03, at 22:54, John Wilson wrote:
Hmmmm! A certain email admin needs to attend classes in remedial arithmetic. :-)
John W.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 21-08-03 (Wicked Screensaver [5])
On Saturday, an email admin I know of reported receiving Blaster emails at a rate of 20-30 PER MINUTE, 120-180 per hour, about 2000-4000+ per day ...
David