Rope, our trusty 8-year old e-mail server passed away this morning. Fortunately, we had a back-up server running, as well. According to director of technology Patrick Ragsdale, the server has received more than 18 million in-coming e-mails. Of course, most of that was spam. History sidenote: This was our second server named Rope. The first lived from 1996-2000.