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US House Limits Constituent Emails

Posted by kdawson on from the just-the-fax-ma'am dept.

Plechazunga passes along this note from The Hill: "The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a 'try back at a later time' response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote."

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  1. Re:So? by arth1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is just good system administration happening.

    Is it? I thought good system administration was ensuring that the mail servers could handle a few hundred thousand e-mails per day, and planning for worst case scenarios.

    Those who look at averages instead of peaks we don't call sysadmins, we call them MCSAs.