[SAGE] Help sysadmin research by taking a survey

["Aaron Brown" <abrown@cs.berkeley.edu>]

Hi,

We're looking for sysadmins with experience managing e-mail systems
who'd be willing to take a few minutes to fill out a survey about
their experiences keeping e-mail up and running.  We hope to use the
collected data to advance our research on easier-to-manage systems,
tools for sysadmins, and benchmarks that measure administrability and
dependability.

If you manage e-mail services, particularly if you run them for a
business or a large collection of users, we'd greatly appreciate your
help. As an incentive, we're offering survey participants the chance
to win one of five $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com.

The survey can be filled out online, and is located at:
     http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/emailsurvey/

Some background: we're a group of researchers in the Recovery-Oriented
Computing (ROC) project at the University of California, Berkeley and
Stanford University, lead by Professors David Patterson and Armando
Fox.  A major goal of the ROC project is to develop tools and system
architectures that make the sysadmin's job easier.  We're particularly
focusing on dependability--trying to understand what real sysadmins
need to do to keep systems up and running, what kinds of things
sysadmins can do to inadvertently break them, and what we can do to
help.  We've chosen e-mail as the first real-world target of our
ideas, and now we're carrying out this survey to collect the data we
need to calibrate our new tools and benchmarks.  More information on
the project is at http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/

If you have any questions about the survey, please send them to
roc-bench@cs.berkeley.edu and one of us will get back to you.

Again, the survey is at
   http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/emailsurvey/

Thanks!

Aaron Brown
Graduate Student Researcher, ROC Research Group, UC Berkeley
abrown@cs.berkeley.edu