6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
7:10 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Michael Sokolov wrote:
Have you ever heard of the word SOVEREIGNTY? I run my
own servers for
everything because I exercise my right to be totally independent from the
outside world. I'll keep running when the rest of the world explodes in
the thermonuclear holocaust.
That's not the issue. I agree with you -- we have our own hardware
machine in a rack in a colo with 3 * 100megabits to three
different ASs. Our own nameservers and all. Hell my friend that
allows this has his own /16.
The issue is that in the year 2005 yuo need to have a
substantial-enough connection to be reliable. Expectations have
risen along with file and mail size. I can't speak for Jay, but
it's clear that classiccmp is moving as much mail as a netcom.com
or aol.com was 10 years ago. If my, or your, site can't keep up
with it, it's no longer acceptable.
Fairness has nothing to do with it.
It is extremely hypocritical
of you to shut me out because I run my entire operation on CLASSIC hardware
with CLASSIC software in the CLASSIC manner, using business practices of
the CLASSIC computing era, exactly as it was done on ARPA Internet in 1980s.
All you need is 99% uptime on port 25 and you're in the game.
That said, I also think the two tries within 35 minutes won't cut it.
Dead paths, routers and hosts still happens. THe 4-day thing is a good
idea.
Personally I don't care if mail is delayed; it sure beats not
gettign mail.
oo