Re: Celebrating Jon

[<WRCENTER@lucy.ch.pdx.edu>]

Rats!  Mickey, it just throttled me too--the audacity!  Since when are machines
allowed to throttle their human creators at will?  I want a shrubbery!

Cliff Barnett

>Date:          Thu, 4 Jan 1996 14:55:31 -0600
>Reply-to:      wcenter@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu
>From:          Mickey Harris <harrism@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
>To:            Multiple recipients of list <wcenter@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu>
>Subject:       Celebrating Jon
>
>
>How frustrating....I wrote a WCenter message with lots of good wishes
>for Jon and got back this virtual raspberry:
>
>
>Forwarded message:
>> From server@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu Thu Jan  4 14:51:15 1996
>> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:51:05 -0600
>> From: server@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu (ListProcessor Server Account)
>> Message-Id: <9601041951.AA01769@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu>
>> To: harrism@mace.cc.purdue.edu, nobody@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu
>> Subject: Posting to bit.listserv.wcenter failed: 
>> Content-Length: 106
>> 
>> Article not accepted by server; not posted.
>> 400 No space left on device writing article file -- throttling
>> 
>
>
>Hmmmm...rejected by an automatic server which is too busy throttling.
>Wow, that's really rejection, Big Time! Has this happened to anyone
>else? Can I file a class action suit against a machine that would
>rather throttle than convey messages? And how do machines throttle?
>
>'Nuff...all I wanted to do was add my wishes for a happy, healthy
>birthday and many, many more, Jon-boy. (Jon Etheridge? Jon Edmonton?
>Jon Elias? Jon Engleburt?)
>-- 
>Mickey Harris
>harrism@mace.cc.purdue.edu
>
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