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Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Sun Mar 6 14:37:00 CST 2005


On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jay West wrote:

> 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.

Damn straight! This isn't 1996 any more! At least use multiple and actual
real and available and well-connected MX backups.

> 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>

It's not extreme at all.

If this is your "grouch mode" you're a better person than I!



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