[26525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail does bounce (was: Customers down?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Sun Jan 2 17:37:02 2000
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:35:21 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 04:29 PM 1/2/00 -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
>Personally, I don't like systems which do not have backup paths to deal with
>transient conditions. And we do know that even "authoritative does not
exist"
>can be a transient error condition caused by a registry glitch etc. Sure, we
>can all just ignore reality and assume we live in a perfect world, but....
I prefer to know immediately if I mistyped an e-mail address, which happens
more often than even NetSol's screwups, rather than wait five days (or even
four hours) to get a bounce from a message I thought had been delivered.
And if it is a NetSol screwup, I would like to know that ASAP as well.
>Christian Kuhtz Architecture,
BellSouth.net
TTFN,
patrick
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