Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure. It's a false economy. What if the mail doesn't go through?
Less than 1% of the mail I send doesn't go through immediately. 50% of
the mail that's deferred still goes through within five minutes or so.
(Both rough estimates, but I'm pretty sure the ballpark is accurate.)
This way, you know immediately about all of the rest rather than being at
the mercy and whim of your ISP's retry schedule; maybe, if it's going to
take a day to deliver the mail, you don't *want* to send mail there.
Maybe you want to call instead, or use an alternate address.
> What if the destination host blocks mail from dialups?
How stupid of them, in a rational world. :)
> I wouldn't even begin to consider sending mail directly from any
> national provider of dialup service (which is what I presume you're
> using, since you indicate that you're not making a long-distance call).
Now think back before spam became the number one issue people worry about
when running mail systems. Some people have been doing this for a while.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
