On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:07:22AM CDT, Kansas Territory <kansast at mac.com> wrote: : : for the past 10 years or so I had an ISP with about 10,000 users, all : servers running Linux based Intel systems. : : for the email servers, we had a pretty intense set of servers, mail : was stored on some kind of disk raid system, but damn if it's not : having a hard time keeping up these days what with all the spam that : comes through on a regular basis. If it's email that's getting you down, consider modifying your infrastructure by putting some kind of bastion servers at the front lines. There, running SpamAssassin or whatnot, they see all incoming emails, junk the junk, and pass along the rest to your normal mail servers. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/