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der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Sat Mar 5 19:02:23 CST 2005


> <Extreme rant mode>

Okay, I'll rant a little myself.

> [...], 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.

Anyone who thinks that downtime exceeding 35 minutes is unreasonable is
living in a fantasy world.  That's probably true for Road Runner or
Telus or their ilk, but for a corporation, a small ISP, or even a
medium ISP, manning infrastructure 24x7 is often Just Not On; as little
as half an hour to roust someone out of bed and into the machine room
is actually pretty good.

There's a reason 1123 says that "the give-up time generally needs to be
at least 4-5 days".

</rant>

The above is a rant.  It is only a rant.  If this had been a serious
message, the attitude presented would have been drastically different.
This concludes our test of the Rant Line.  We now return you to your
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