Jo Rhett wrote:
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.
And, oddly enough, mail coming FROM yahoo can sometimes take up to an
hour to hit my server after the person has hit send. Im still trying to
figure that one out..
-Jim
