Comments on: E-mail Overreaction Bubbles Over

By: charles Morris

charles Morris — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:21:54 +0000

I was a photographer for the U.S. Air Fore in 97 and stationed at Grand Forks AFB ND. We had the same thing happen when the system went off by itself and I was called to photograph the the situation. I saw the photos a few weeks ago and they looked like the same photos I had taken a few years eailer. They properly had a good reason for doing this test, but by far the most important should be for training, getting used to work in that kind of stuff, I would hate to be in an hager fire and not trust the equipment to work. As a Photographer I know their’s times when you have to wonder why am I thaking these photos and wasting my time, BUT to me, in this situstion, this can be a very important photographic assigment providing valuable information to the maintenance personnel. This appears not to be one of those time where the photographer is out taking Happy Snaps for a good time.

By: Cubu Ashiru

Cubu Ashiru — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:17:34 +0000

HAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
MORONS!!!!!! ALL MORONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Milo

Milo — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:41:20 +0000

This single email did take many man hrs. to resolve and is still causing problems. That 4 meg .pps was emailed thousands of time over and that does cause bandwidth concerns, possibly locking up the exchange queue. Also, the maintenance commander @ Ellsworth has spent way too much time explaining this to other AF leaders, therefore wasting time. I work in the 28 CS network security shop, I know this to be true.

By: Gregg Brown, CISSP

Gregg Brown, CISSP — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:00 +0000

Actually, forwarding around an email with multiple pictures in it is a problem for the amount of bandwidth that it consumes on the network, not the storage space required to store the message after it has been received. Imagine firefighters trying to put out a fire with a whole bunch of people opening hydrants elsewhere to simply play in the water stream from them. The firemen would be left with much less pressure to fight the fire and could even conceivably run out of water if enough other hydrants were opened. The same principle applies to data communications networks. People passing around email messages “for fun” that require a large amount of bandwidth, effectively clog the data communications network and prevent those with legitimate official business to communicate in a timely, efficient manner. This should be the reason for being concerned about a message of this type, not the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of its content.

By: JSAllison

JSAllison — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:38:02 +0000

Just letting it burn itself out is obviously a non-starter. Can’t get glowing OPR/EPRs unless you’re seen to be doing stuff. “Saved 49.3 hours this year by not chasing own tail” does not a glowing bullet make…