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NY Times: E-Mail on Impeachment Slows Senate Servers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 12, 1999

“A seven-fold increase in constituent e-mail has created a
bottleneck for the Senate e-mail server.”

“… e-mail volume on the Senate server has jumped from an
average of 70,000 a day to 500,000 a day, according to the Senate
Computer Center.”

“… part of the problem is that much of the e-mail has to be
translated from the standard Internet format to the proprietary CC
mail format used by Lotus Notes.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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