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...incoming e-mail to "fas" is stored on a spool, which is in essence one large mailbox for all undergraduates. Each student's inbox is represented as one file on the spool, and there is no limit to the size of any particular inbox...
There are about 10,000 user accounts on "fas," and over 2000 megabytes of disk space are dedicated to the mail spool. If too many individual users unwittingly let their inboxes grow without deleting or filing old mail, the overall mail spool may fill to capacity (currently it hovers around 87 percent). A full mail spool means that nobody's incoming mail can be stored--and thus the e-mail system comes to a screeching halt...
...mail spool should be thought of as a scarce resource. If we all do our share by keeping our inboxes as small as possible, we will all benefit from a more efficient e-mail system...
...tape in his machine. Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index. Schweitzer made two copies of the original tape. He wound one into a tight spool the size of a coin and inserted it into a slit cut into his sneakers; he transferred the other onto an audio cassette and slipped it into his Walkman. Inspectors at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport did not discover either tape before Schweitzer boarded a flight to Bangkok. The operation...
...parody, which appeared in the Review's annual spool issue, was widely condemned as disrespectful and misogynistic...