At 7:55 PM -0400 8/23/99, John R Levine wrote:
> This doesn't excuse MSN, but it does mean that until they move their system
> to something based on Hotmail, it's not going to get any better, and I
> wouldn't blame you for kicking all MSN users off your list. If you get an
> MSN bounce, just kick off all the MSN users, then send them a mailing
> explaining you can't tell who caused the bounce, if it wasn't them they can
> resubscribe, and they should complain to MSN for forcing this asinine
> situation.
I rarely have many problems with MSN. Over the weekend, however, the
system clearly burped, and blew out some noticably bogus messages.
Before you throw MSN out iwth the bathwather, I suggest you take a
second look, and ask yourself whether what you're seeing is a real
problem, or a short-term situation on the order of the "too many
hops" problem most of us have caused at one point or another. Because
I think MSN is getting ripped here for being MSN, not for any
systemic problem. And I say that as no real fan of MSN, only as
someone who noticed what as clearly a temporary, systemwide oopsie on
their part and simply threw away all of the mail from them until it
stopped, the same way I throw away boucnes for any site that's
clearly in a case of short-term failure mode. As I'd hope other sites
will do for mine when I screw mine up again...
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