If a tree falls in the forest ...

The philosophical question, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" came to mind this morning. Not because I am in a philosophical mood -- far from it -- but because of the "silence" we've been experiencing since last week.

Here's a warning, boys and girls: make sure your email server team whitelists your wiki or social media software's sending address. Sometime late last week, our company's email servers concluded that the volume of emails being sent per minute from our wiki to our company email domain constituted a spam attack. So it blocked all further messages.

That's right -- usage on our system has become so fast and furious that it looks like a spammer! I'm actually delighted by that news, now that I have calmed down (I was not a happy camper when I realized thousands of emails had been refused delivery).

Now there's an odd sensation this morning as messages pop in one after another while the backlogged email queue clears. There are little comments here, questions there, and all of them actually were posted days ago. But no one heard them then. Like the tree falling in the forest, they made not a sound, since no one was there to hear them.

Now we're there in the forest again and the trees are falling right and left -- it's very noisy, and I like it!