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Subject: Re: GENEALOGICAL SUICIDE--LISTOWNER MESSAGE--PLEASE READ
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 10:34:10 -0400
This thread is the biggest threat to genealogy. This cross posting to
all these lists is going to crash rootsweb! Please stop this thread or
take it private. If the average list on this thread has 500 people on
it, this post generates over 25,000 posts each time someone replies to
it. Maiser, a genealogy server like rootsweb was crashed by a single
spam of 10,000 posts and is no more. It never recovered. You are
putting rootsweb in danger of doing the same. When you cross post, the
computer tries to send out all these messages at once. It not only
causes an unbalance but can also backlog all these messages until the
system overloads and crashes. Brian who runs rootsweb has posted about
how dangerous this practice is and has asked that people cross post to
only 3 or 4 at a time (in the case of roots-l that has over 10,000
subscribers, post to it alone.) So please, stop this now.
A listowner whose list was spammed by this post.
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