Email storms are pretty common on any mailing list with wide enough distribution; I kind of doubt there was anything particularly unique about this one, but it

Email storms are pretty common on any mailing list with wide enough distribution; I kind of doubt there was anything particularly unique about this one, but it is kind of impressive that it hit several hundred messages in the space of 20 minutes at around 1-4am depending on where in the US you live. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_storm