[IP] "All servers are busy. Your email will be ignored in the order it was received"

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Randall <rvh40@insightbb.com>
Date: September 30, 2008 5:11:25 PM EDT
To: johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>, David Farber <dave@farber.net 
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Subject: "All servers are busy. Your email will be ignored in the  
order it was received"

House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash
By Jordy Yager
Posted: 09/30/08 01:16 PM [ET]
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.

“We were trying to figure out a way that the House.gov website  
wouldn’t completely crash,” said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the  
Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the upkeep of the  
House website and member e-mail services.

[SNIP]

The error message in its entirety reads:

“The House of Representatives is currently experiencing an  
extraordinarily high amount of e-mail traffic. The Write Your  
Representative function is therefore intermittently available. While  
we realize communicating to your Members of Congress is critical, we  
suggest attempting to do so at a later time, when demand is not so  
high. System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we  
appreciate your patience.”

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-limits-constituent-e-mails-to-prevent-crash-2008-09-30.html
http://tinyurl.com/3pzd3r

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The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be  
against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken





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