[ale] Huge number of PPP connections

[Russell Enderby]

About 1 year ago I spoke with a previous MindSpring admin and they were running BSD
for their servers.
Russell

Vernard Martin wrote:

> > Do you have more details on this?  Last I knew, most of the servers at
> > MindSpring run either Suns running Solaris, or Alphas running DecUnix,
> > and there wasn't a lot of Linux usage.
>
> To my understanding, many of the MindSpring employees that do not do customer
> support for their standard dialup accounts use Linux on their desktops. I know
> a person in Web Support that uses it on her desktop and a couple of other guys
> that use it as well. However, to my knowledge, MindSpring does not use Linux at
> all for any company critical servers. That's just a rumor.
>
> Vernard
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