<Extreme rant mode>
Okay, I'll rant a little myself.
[...], if you run a mail server you need to be a good
net citizen
about it.
What does being a good net citizen admin entail?
Well, for starters,
it means that you don't expect other mail servers to pick up YOUR
SLACK.
Anyone who thinks that downtime exceeding 35 minutes is unreasonable is
living in a fantasy world. That's probably true for Road Runner or
Telus or their ilk, but for a corporation, a small ISP, or even a
medium ISP, manning infrastructure 24x7 is often Just Not On; as little
as half an hour to roust someone out of bed and into the machine room
is actually pretty good.
There's a reason 1123 says that "the give-up time generally needs to be
at least 4-5 days".
</rant>
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