Re: [cobalt-security] Re: Raq3 hacked (was:Support for Cobalt Products)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theodore Jones wrote:

> By 'big iron' i assume he means a dedicated mainframe type computer for
> just his email... would make sense to be also...

Since you'd have to do an awful lot of email to overload a unix box
running on the Intel platform (see below from the BSDi Users List)....

> With our machine
> its a pop/mailserver w/ about 3000 users, and sendmail handles about 20k
> messages total in and out a day. Very low by some standards and load avg's
> are rarely above 1.00.

My guess is that by "big iron" he means a larger Intel box.

Jeff
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