On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't believe that legitimate senders of email are likely to commonly see > really long delays at the end of data, and I don't much care if other senders > are inconvenienced.
As a sender, over the years, I've seen duplicate messages to Y! increase. The MTA we use has RFC suggested limits. We increased those limits to reduce duplicates. We didn't yell at Y! that they should follow the RFC better. It was easy to visualize that with the massive amount of mailboxes they have that things would take longer than they should from time to time. So I find it strange that some folks are seeking to suggest lower values instead of realizing that those MTA clients are making a conscience decision to not follow RFC guidelines at the risk of increased duplicates. I'd say reducing those numbers would be an endorsement of their bad behaviour. I don't think that is something we should be doing. If clarification is sought, I like John's language. I'd also say keep the 10 minute time-out. Otherwise I think the existing language is fine. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA
