On Friday 21 October 2005 14:19, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:42, you wrote: > > On Friday 21 October 2005 13:39, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Any mail I have sent to an xtra address in the last hour or three is > > > stuck in the mail queue. Telnetting on port 25 hangs. I am on a > > > paradise IP (adsl). > > > > Indeed, from the discussion on NZNOG it appears Xtra's SMTP has been > > playing up since last night.
> If only ISP's had a way to get this sort of information out to their > customers. Perhaps they could send an email to everyone. It seems like > the obvious way. > "Perhaps they could send an email to everyone." But they can't do that if their mail server is out of order. I really wish the ISPs would disseminate this kind of info using RSS. I wonder if there are any "Faithful ISP employee" types subscribing to this list who could bring this to the attention of their respective managements, because it would be _very_ useful. -- CS
