On 10/30, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > I had an IBM Deathstar go on me. Although I thought it had, moving > my mail spool and personal home directory to a RAID array never made > it to the top of my to-do list. To make it worse, my > backups-to-disk array failed the week before. I've never been able > to justify a tape library for home, so I'm without any backups now.
I am sincerely sorry for your loss. I've had a couple similar experiences. > If anybody at a major data recovery firm feels like helping me out, > I'd appreciate it. I'm on the fence right now about spending big $$ > to recover the data. It is my experience that people *always* decide it's not worth it once they find out how much money it actually costs. If you come up with something different, I'd love to know. > >Such an extreme drop has happened three times before in as many years, > > That's a pretty good record given the volunteer nature, I think. Absolutely. I only mentioned it to point out this recent event was different. > >but this is the first time it was the result of a multi-week trend, > >and the first time it stayed so low two weeks in a row. > > That's probably a result of me having been running a city council > election campaign in October and not having time to get mass-checks > running again on what mail I can collect from caches. > Unfortunately, for the SpamAssassin community, I was elected so time > continues to be short on my end. Although I do think that I got it > pretty much working last night so their should be results sometime > today. I maybe having some DNS issues though, so it might be > another week or two before I have solid results. Congratulations :) I guess it's just weird that the failure mode involved dropping spam and not non-spam. You might want to mention on the ruleqa site that it's broken. Although it looks back to normal now. Thanks for maintaining it. -- "He who dies with the most toys... still dies." - No Fear http://www.ChaosReigns.com
