6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
11:02 a.m.
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
Actually, I don't run my own mail server, and nor do I intend to. Doing
so on dial-up (so I certainly can't be connected to the outside world all
the time) would seem to be totally stupid.
No, I trust the mail servers at my ISP. And they've been darn good so far
(as I said, perhaps half a dozen unscheduled problems in 10 years). But
they do take them down for maintenance from time to time, there can be
network problems, etc.
I feel that expecting < 30 minutes outage at a time is _totally_
unreasonable for anyone, no matter what machines they run, what backup
machines they have, and so on.
The above is a rant. It is only a rant. If this
had been a serious
message, the attitude presented would have been drastically different.
This concludes our test of the Rant Line. We now return you to your
regularly scheduled list.
Well, it IS a serious matter for ME. If Jay is going to make this list
hostile to people who actually run their entire business operations on
Classic computers in the Classic manner (and exercise their right to
use their own servers and not someone else's for sovereignty reasons), it looks like those of us *TRULY* into Classic
computing need to start
our own list (hosted on a Classic list server of course). der Mouse,
can I count you in? I'm sure I can count on Tony... He is certainly
*THE* most intelligent and most worthy person on this list.
I dispute that!. I've been called an idiot so often that I now believe it.
-tony