Re: Celebrating Jon

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only person being throttled today -- 
especially since I was informed today that our telephone advice line is 
listed in the Austin phone book as the "grammer (sic) hotline."  What the 
heck, next year we'll just take out a full-page add offering help with 
"speling, editting, and profreadng."
Sara Kimball

On Thu, 4 Jan 1996 WRCENTER@lucy.ch.pdx.edu wrote:

> 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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