Logan Shaw wrote:
I guess the problem with being an ISP is that there would be other ISPs who would be willing to not try to adjust their expectations and instead promise them super-speedy e-mail delivery in all cases. The fact that it isn't possible to deliver on that promise might not matter if they still manage to take away your customers. :-)
Exactly so. At an ISP I did some work for, I used to argue this until people very reasonably pointed out that yahoo mail got delivered faster, and it was free.
Yahoo averages ~2 minutes for mail delivery. That sets the bar for anyone who is trying to sell their mail services.
-- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance
