geekitarian

Let me tell you a little story.  The names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent and it's vague because I'm not really so great with specifics. Let's call the subject of this story Steve.  Steve sent out a message asking how he could set up his corporate email on his iPad.  Unfortunately, instead of sending that message out to the proper person or mailing list in his company, he figured "bigger is better" and sent it out to as many people as he could - 4000 users seemed to be the limit, so Steve was sure to use up all the resources he could. In 1989, it would have been a lot of paper. This little action seems to be pretty innocuous at first, but it has huge ripple effects that still affected message delivery hours later. The problem starts out simple.  Let's do a thought experiment so we can see the repercusions of this one message. Let's assume that the mail server can do only one thing at a time, and that copying this first mes...