Our busiest days see over 100,000 pieces of mail transfered and over 750,000 HTTP requests served. This makes for over 5 million hits per month on the web server, serving over 4 million different people. Not bad for a little pentium hosting a hobby site. For the most part, net users are stupid, shallow, and petty. I know I know, that is not a nice thing to say, but being the negative person I am combined with the assault of stupidity we receive, it is difficult to think otherwise.
Net etiquette is dead.
People can't seem to deal with their problems any more. Even hiding behind their monitor and keyboard, they still refuse to confront someone they think they have a problem with. Nine out of ten complaints about Attrition were sent to our upstream provider without even copying us on the mail as a general courtesy. Our upstream dutifully forwards the mail to us to get our side of things and goes on from there. Eight of those nine complaints are unfounded or we deal with them without the aid of our upstream.