[Cialug] Free hardware

[Thomas Kula]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:13:31PM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> You probably do remember when they put it in. Summer of 1997 students 
> came back to Drake with ethernet in the dorms and brand new POP mail 
> (didn't you help install the ethernet?). I think that ES40 server was 
> installed at that time to replace the previous QuickMail that employees 
> used and the console-based PMDF mail that students had on acad.drake. 
> So... the machine is 12 years old. It has been out of service for a bit 
> more than 1 year. For 11 years it single-handedly processed all the 
> mail for ~15000 POP/IMAP accounts. Now it is time for it to go. <sniff>
> 

If I remember properly, this is the machine where George Miller
said "If you can deadlift it, you can take it home."

And, eww, I just remembered, this machine used to run some crufty 
C mailbox cleanup code I wrote one summer. I think I still have
a hardcopy of that off in a box somewhere....

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