Quoth the Mailscanner, "Nevermore"

[Martin Hepworth]

Julian

I'll send the builders around to widen the doors.....:-)

More seriously though, well deserved.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Julian Field wrote:
> With all credit to Neil White, I present the latest in the range of Open
> Source Poetry:
>
> Once upon a morning dreary, while I watched my mail get weak and weary.
>  From many a bad and most evil spammers galore.
> While I wept and began to moan suddenly there came a rining on my phone.
> As of someone urgently phoninig, phonining me to do a chore
> "Tis some boss," I thought, phoning me to do a chore.
> Only this and nothing more.
>
> Ah, fondly I remember, it was a sunny day in September.
> And every I.T guy was running around on that floor.
> Eagrly I wished that google would do it's works.
> To find me a solution to these virus jerks.
> It answered my cry and gave me a name.
> Julian Field ,and much much more
>
> And the silken sad clicking of each new web page
> Thrilled me, filled with fantastic relief never felt before.
> So that now, to stop the ringing in my ears, I stood repeating.
> "Tis some boss just calling me on my phone"
> "Some annoying boss wanting me to do another chore"
> This it is and nothing more.
>
> Presently my courage got stronger, taking it no longer.
> I reached down and picked up that damn phone.
> "Sir", said I, what can I do you for?
> That fact was, that the boss had been napping
> And the clients had started crapping.
> Crapping on him like never before.
>
> Deep into the phone I began listening, wondering, fearing.
> Hearing, I must get a solution to this problem before four.
> To stop the spam and virus' in its tracks
> So the clients would get off our backs.
> MailScanner! This I whispered back in the phone.
> MailScanner and nothing more.
>
> Back to the computer turning, all the keys on the keyboard burning.
> Soon I began learning, learning Mailscanner and how to install.
> "Surely" said I when I finshed, surely this can't be true.
> An open source program that does virus scanning,
> content filter and SPAM checking too.
> I picked on the phone and made the call.
>
>  From the source I did compile, even though it took a while.
> But finally in stepped Mailscanner, from a hard days chore.
> And all around the I.T. guys gathered to see what was the matter.
> The matter, because this had never been done before.
> MailScanner sat there saying "Nevermore"
>
> "Work!" said I, as I started the new Service
> And we cowered round the tailed log files of the servers.
> As we watched the log files start to grow.
> And started to read the lines, row by row.
> We saw something new, something we would now adore
> Quoth the Mailscanner, "Nevermore"
>
> And now the Mailscanner, never dying, still working, still working.
> On all the mailservers in the data center on the ground floor.
> And its eyes having all that it can see of a daemon using clam-AV.
> The I.T. guys are not longer running around that floor.
> And the phone do not ring anymore.
> All because of Mailscanner.
> Shall not be lifted - Nevermore!
>
>
> --
> Julian Field
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