On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
[snip]
> I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff,
> and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact
> Yahoo and pester them to get their system working. These failures are
> all too common on their global system, and have been occurring for
> months now.
>
> Please give me any feedback, flames, comments, etc, and if they are
> personal, direct them to me personally. If they are useful for others
> to see (not just for your ego but for general list education about
> this problem), post them to the list.
I have logfiles with several deferred deliveries, either 'connected to
blah but connection died' or just plainly 'wasnt able to establish an
SMTP connection'.
My co-worker who does the old sendmail boxes reports several
(Deferred: Connection timed out with pop.yahoo.nl.)
in the sendmail queue.
Yahoo is actually mentioned in a memo in my Palm PDA as a very good
reason for a distributed concurrencyremote (one that doesn't dedicate
all concurrency to a single remote host, not even by accident). This
refers to the march 2000 'incident' (incidents don't last for weeks, do
they?) where people actually had problems with yahoo *taking up all
concurrencyremote* with deferrals that took a long time to happen.
I'll support your cause. What can I do?
Greetz, Peter
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dataloss networks
'/ignore-ance is bliss' - me
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