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> the server connection pool was exhausted

Why ? Did you TCP-flooded SMTP server after you connected ?

Have you considered that it might be very simple to track you down since you'd be one of few people who got the tickets that day through this channel ?



The flood was of all of the other Oz applicants hitting SEND on their email clients. That was why I allocated myself two channels before. There were many more than 2 channels available.

I could have DDOSed the server to ensure only I got tickets, but that sounds like an ugly thing to do.




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