On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 20:22 -0400, ATMunn via agora-discussion wrote: > On 8/25/2020 8:12 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > > The lists were down for about four hours total. > > aw man, i had a brilliant, genius, unstoppable scam that i did during > that time and only could have done during that time, guess nobody will > ever know what it is now... > > (/s obviously)
Unless you hand-delivered your scam email for some reason (I have been known to do this for Agoran scams in the past...), it would still end up appearing at the lists eventually. Email was designed in a time of unreliable and slow connections; each of the email relays along the route will try for quite some time to get the message through if the recipient relay appears to be down or disconnected (as opposed to intentionally refusing the email). And (especially in this age of spam) almost every legitimate email starts off by being sent to the sender's relay, which then relays it to the recipient's. There have been multiple occasions on which I've sent an email, and had a bounce email from my email relay, two weeks later, explaining that it's spent all this time trying to deliver the email but the destination server was down all that time. -- ais523
