Jared Mauch wrote on 11/8/2019 12:33 PM:
On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>
wrote:
“During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously undelivered
text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operators’
subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement.
how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked
and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?
I run mailing lists. I’ve had times where I find something stuck in the system
and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure it goes out based
on the original intent. This has resulted in me sending out e-mails a year or
two later at times.
- Jared
Timing can be critical, which is why SMTP servers often expire and
return queued messages after 12-72hrs (maybe a week at most). Any
messages that can't be returned are eventually discarded and a message
is sent to the mail server's administrator. Sounds like none of that
actually happens within Syniverse's TXT/SMS delivery system. Someone is
asleep at the wheel if 100-200k messages are stuck in queue for months.
