[119017] in Cypherpunks
Re: The "We did not get anything back saying that it had not been delivered" case . . . (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Oct 12 20:11:53 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
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To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:07:03 -0500 (CDT)
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----- Forwarded message from Harmon Seaver -----
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:22:54 -0500
From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us>
Subject: CDR: Re: The "We did not get anything back saying that it had not been
delivered" case . . .
Has anyone advised them on how utterly ridiculous this is? Just given the
vagaries of the net, what's the odds of any particular piece of email being
lost -- it happens all the time.
----- End of forwarded message from Harmon Seaver -----
Get a better system or ISP. I lose mail (not a destination error but really
lost) about once a year. The SSZ CDR gets on average about one a week and
the vast majority of mail that does bounce gets delivered before the 4 day
expiration unless the destination host is really gone or the account is
expired (most commen by at least an order of magnitude).
The fact that their first email bounced should have set something off, the
fact that the second (or subsequent) didn't bounce means nothing (e.g. the
ISP could be filtering to /dev/null all traffic after the fist warning).
This won't last long implimented this way.
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