Re: mail does bounce (was: Customers down?)

[I Am Not An Isp <patrick () ianai net>]

At 04:29 PM 1/2/00 -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

>Personally, I don't like systems which do not have backup paths to deal with
>transient conditions.  And we do know that even "authoritative does not 
exist"
>can be a transient error condition caused by a registry glitch etc.  Sure, we
>can all just ignore reality and assume we live in a perfect world, but....

I prefer to know immediately if I mistyped an e-mail address, which happens 
more often than even NetSol's screwups, rather than wait five days (or even 
four hours) to get a bounce from a message I thought had been delivered.

And if it is a NetSol screwup, I would like to know that ASAP as well.

>Christian Kuhtz                                     Architecture, 
BellSouth.net

TTFN,
patrick

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