So I've reconsidered setting up a remailer on an incredibly whimpy machine
and today picked up a "pretty-damn" whimpy machine instead. I was just
about to put the old relic back into the storage locker to continue on the
last leg of it's decent into obsolecence and it occured to me that as long
as I've got 4 ports on my router, perhaps it could be of some value in
limiting the posibility of lost mail, etc in the event of catastrophic
hard drive failure on the "real" remailer machine. Actually since that
exploding power supply incident a few years ago, I'm thinking catastrophic
whole f'in computer destruction isn't outside the realm of possibilities :-)

Question is - anybody already doing this? I mean using a whimpy old out of
date computer connected on an ethernet LAN as a substitute for a RAID, etc
strategy for preventing data loss. The remailer senerio isn't that
unique.. streams of incomming and outgoing mail (from Reliable's
perspective) that are temporarily buffered (ie Mercury's impact) in a way
where there would be data loss in the event of a catastrophic hardware
failure.

Just daydreaming here so I'm wide open to suggestions and comments...

TIA

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