This is a little late...

[Fairlight]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Bill Campbell may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> I haven't made any changes recently.  The Mailman lists here run
> in a free VMware Server virtual machine, CentOS 5.x on a 2U
> Supermicro box with dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
> processors, 8GB RAM, and pretty vanilla WD SATA drives.  There

SATA or SATA2?

And are those dual Xeon or quad Xeon?  I've seen both in that speed
range...just as Core2 Duo processors can be quad or dual, depending on
model.

> The only time there will be any significant delay in message
> processing is when somebody sends from an e-mail address that
> isn't on the subscriber list, is too large, or identified as spam
> by spamassassin, all of which put it on hold for moderator
> approval which may take some time depending on when Mark or I see
> it, and get around to approving it.

John is right, though...  Back 3-5 years ago, it did used to take 30min to
3hrs to get a non-approval-needing message to echo back to the list.  I
believe this was prior to the adoption of lists.celestial.com though.

> FWIW, I got a snail-mail from Puget Sound Energy last week
> telling me that our electric usage is 75% greater than our
> neighbors, which I attribute to having three racks of servers.
> Any donations gratefully accepted.  The houses on either side of
> ours are about 4,500 sq ft while ours is a modest 3,100 or so.

Would it be cheaper to co-locate the boxes at a real carrier, or to pay the
electric?  I'm guessing to pay the electric would be cheaper.  I remember
Bill Vermillion telling me that it was about $750/rack at Level 3--per
month.

> There are too many TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) in the world.

I know...WTF is up with that?  :)

mark->
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