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The last post, but not post haste

‘Has anyone else noticed signs of a worrying trend that computer systems are becoming more like human beings?’ asks Ian Cooper at Hampshire County Council,
‘I heard from an IT manager whose computer room was flooded recently and his Lotus Notes system needed a complete restore.
‘When the staff checked their emails they discovered a number they’d never seen before, some marked as urgent and three months old. No one had missed them.’
He’s concerned: have some of our email servers done the rogue postie trick of occasionally ditching the post in a virtual skip?
‘My theory is that our systems are maybe a little stressed out,’ he says. Let’s hope they don’t ‘go postal’ on us. More evidence please.

July 17, 2007 in backbytes | Permalink

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