Reliably archiving things is a troublesome issue. There are a numberof places to find numbers for how long CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, and varioussorts of tapes all last, and lots of debate, and lots of people whowill sell you solutions, and so on. I don't have much to add to theirnumbers and marketing information.

But I have been around for long enough to have burnt my fingers andseen other people's fingers burnt, and thus I have arrived at what I

In a comment on my Legend of Debian post,Chris Wage wrote in part:

Most of the servers I run are: webservers, mailservers, CVS servers,etc. These are things for which well-established stable software hasexisted for years. I don't need bleeding-edge software to do them. Ineed stable representatives of that software that are supported bysecurity updates but don't otherwise change.

I have to disagree with this in the case of mail servers.

Unless you actively enjoy getting spammed

It looks like the hope from last week that spammers had stoppedforging University of Toronto subdomains as the origin of their spamwas in fact just a hope. 'Nonexistent local user' rejections are backup like clockwork. Oh well; it would have been nice.

IP level rejections:

Host/Mask           Packets   Bytes212.216.176.0/24       6663    339K213.4.149.11           6659