[119030] in Cypherpunks
Re: The "We did not get anything back saying that it had not been
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harmon Seaver)
Wed Oct 13 11:30:07 1999
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:41 -0500
From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@ah-gws.arrowhead.lib.mn.us>
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Jim Choate wrote:
> 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).
>
You never know what's happening with the mail on the other end, no matter
how good your system or ISP. as you said, it might all be going into null. I once
was reading newsgroups on one ISP, and forwarding posts I wanted to archive to
myself on another ISP -- they never got there and never bounced. Not just one or
two, but *many* over a several day period. I called the ISP, they denied any
problem. After much badgering, they finally admitted that "one of the office girls
inadvertently deleted a couple files" -- ????????? 8-) Nice system, eh? The
whole thing happened a second time with the same ISP, whereupon we parted company.
They're still in business -- probably most of their users never even knew they
lost mail.
The idea that the courts somehow think they can depend upon something
like this is ridiculous. Of course, they also figure they can give service via US
snailmail, which is equally absurd -- even 1st class mail wrongly addressed often
just gets tossed by the wrong recipient.
--
Harmon Seaver, MLIS System Librarian
Arrowhead Library Systems Virginia, MN
(218) 741-3840 hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us http://harmon.arrowhead.lib.mn.us
