minor list changes

Jay West jwest at classiccmp.org
Sat Mar 5 18:11:10 CST 2005


MS wrote...
> I think this is totally unfair and unacceptable.  This means that if a 
> mail
> server is having even a slightest bit of downtime (hardware failure, 
> scheduled
> maintenance, whatever) that lasts more than 35 min, then all users of that
> mail server lose their mail?!

<Extreme rant mode>
Anyone who runs a mail server in a serious capacity has no business being 
down for extended periods of time (well, unless it's a HOBBY of course).

One of the problems mail server admins face, are people who throw up their 
own mailserver at home. You don't have gobs of bandwidth, you don't have 
multiple backup servers, and you don't have diesel generators and online 
UPS. If you don't, you have no business running a public mailserver. Most of 
the time I see this it's because someone wants some kinda juvenile bragging 
rights about "Ohhh I run a my own K00L server". Geeze. I have seen a few 
people who do it for good reason, but, 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.
</Extreme rant mode>

Anyways.... as I said, once the subscriber list is cleaned up a bit, I'll be 
more gracious about the timeout settings for people who run (or have) 
unreliable servers.

Jay









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