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On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
Logan Shaw wrote:
I guess the problem with being an ISP is that there would be
other ISPs who would be willing to not try to adjust their
expectations and instead promise them super-speedy e-mail
delivery in all cases. The fact that it isn't possible to
deliver on that promise might not matter if they still manage
to take away your customers. :-)
Exactly so. At an ISP I did some work for, I used to argue this
until people very reasonably pointed out that yahoo mail got
delivered faster, and it was free.
Yahoo averages ~2 minutes for mail delivery. That sets the bar for
anyone who is trying to sell their mail services.
OTOH, in my experience, the few customers who were so concerned about
such things also tended to be a drain on support resources in other
ways too, and losing them to another ISP was was actually profitable.
Besides, with most SA deployments, the filtering job can easily scale
horizontally which will bring that time to delivery down.
David Morton
Maia Mailguard http://www.maiamailguard.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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