On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:54:01 -0400 Alex Pennace <a...@pennace.org> wrote:
> It is a distinct possibility that the issues you are experiencing are > cyclic, and if you tried again later you may have better results. But > the notion of "too many users active at once" implies that things > would be just fine if it weren't for those other users who want to > check their email during the day. I would instead argue that the real > question to answer is "did Verizon/Oath provision their email service > to handle a reasonable peak load?" > > Email hosting can be very scalable (of course, poorly designed > implementations may have bad scaling issues). If it is scalable, then > it is a a straightforward matter of provisioning it with more > resources. If the implementation isn't scalable, then modifying it to > be so is possible (albeit more difficult). It is fair to say that if > the problems you are encountering are due to resource limitations, > then it will be possible for Verizon to correct the situation. Verizon > *wanting* to spend the time and money to address the issue is another > matter, of course. I'm noticing the slow speeds all the time: morning, afternoon, evening. I just pinged the IMAP server and the times looked fine: 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 29.040/31.235/34.016/1.839 ms Don't know... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
