On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:09:34PM +0000, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> I would consider email of paramount importance. Jobs depend on it.
Then use a private network with full return-receipt support, real-time
address verification, encryption and sender authentication. ;-)
More seriously, the protocols which are used to move mail around
the net (SMTP, POP, IMAP) are robust, but have never been engineered
to be utterly fault-tolerant. It simply wasn't a design goal.
And while continuing improvements have brought them to the point where
they can be relied on a great deal, they're by no means invulnerable.
When they break, it's sometimes because of underlying problems -- DNS,
routing, etc., which are outside the scope of mail, and sometimes outside
the control of the particular site involved.
I use mail over the 'net, too: I've done so for nearly 20 years. But I
have learned not to assume that it is 100% reliable. 99.something %, yes,
but not 100%.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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