[geeks] ADMINISTRIVIA: Changes to mail delivery policies

[Kris Kirby]

Whoa dude, watch the cross-posting.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Secondary MX hosts are very rare and increasingly so.  It is impossible
> to run a secure MTA with a secondary MX that you do not control, so even
> if people do have secondary MXers then they will likely both become
> unreachable when connectivity fails since they'll both be sitting
> topologically side by side on the very same logical IP network.

*cough* uninterruptible.net *cough*.

> The retries (normally just three tiny SYN packets each) for 5 days
> backlog for a few unreachable sites are not going to even be a tiny
> pixel on your bandwidth graph, and I'm sure you won't even notice the
> disk space and other sundry resources they may take up either.

Yeah, but the one KB per attempt message....

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