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From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
To: Richard Reynolds <richard.reynolds@usa.net>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>,
	Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mail admin notice my 2 cents
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 15:51:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B08203A.4DE28C40@haque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0105211131330.1657-100000@cx970979-a.>

Richard Reynolds wrote:
> 
> I would have never signed up for this list, or any other if it didn't give me at
> least a few hours worth of email bouncing neither myself, or usa.net is up
> 24/7/365, and i wouldn't expect that everyone has a dedicated email server, for
> almost any list. plus I have had many problems with the @home's email servers,
> if I relied on them I would probibly have been kicked off quite some time ago.
> 


Any _service_ that offers email _should_ have backup MX servers in
place. Anythign less is  ..well.. stupid. 

If you're not a service provider and hostyour own dns/mail server, it's
your own choice. After all, you'll only be losing your own email and not
other people's email.


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                                               mhaque@haque.net

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-20 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-20  5:23 ethtool and pre4 Jeff Garzik
2001-05-20  7:31 ` Mail admin notice Shawn Starr
2001-05-20 10:28   ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-20 19:05     ` Matti Aarnio
2001-05-21 18:36       ` Mail admin notice my 2 cents Richard Reynolds
2001-05-20 19:51         ` Mohammad A. Haque [this message]

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