-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Peterson wrote: > Dave Warren wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> Sander Holthaus wrote: >>> >>>> A tempfail is not a disaster in most scenarios. You may not >>>> be able to receive mail until it is fixed, but you still get >>>> the mail after it is fixed. >>> I think that attitude works fine in trivially small email >>> environments. >>> >>> I don't think it works at all in environments where you've got >>> an enterprise email system in a mission critical environment, >>> where having an email delayed significantly can have financial >>> implications. >> >> If having an email delayed causes significant financial >> implications, you've got more serious underlying issues. SMTP is >> a best-effort process, there is absolutely no guarantee of >> delivery at all, let alone timely delivery. > > This is a very naive or at least uninformed position to take on the > monetary significance of email. It is not that way in much of the > world - certainly not in any business I've been involved with in > the last 10 years. > > Can I just suggest Ebay and its millions of clients as a point to > ponder? Email commerce is a huge part of the industry I'm in as > well. Earnings and expenditures in thousands of dollars per minute > just from email traffic is such that any email failure is not > something that can wait until Monday morning. > > dp The issue is that email never was designed to be used in that particular fashion. While it may be fast and almost instant in normal circumstances, it was not designed with that in mind. The fact that businesses do expect that is something else and it is what usually gives people in IT headaches.
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