Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:53:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At 4/24/2000 10:56 AM -0400, Dave Sill wrote or quoted:
>>"J.M. Roth \(iip\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >One of our users had an important mail in the queue which was returned to
>> >him only 7 days later ('cause of a DNS failure), way too late...
>>
>>Oh? What would the user have done had he known there was a DNS
>>failure?
>
>He might have tried to fax, fed-ex, or otherwise send the information via
>another medium.
Anyone who assumes that An Important Mail has been delivered intact
and read by the recipient simply because they didn't receive a warning
or bounce message deserves what they get.
This is a real indictment of the state of the Internet.
I hope that someday people will trust the Internet the way they trust
the telephone system. How often have you heard somebody say ``You
didn't get my fax? I guess the Telco server was down.''
The Internet can and should be more reliable for this sort of usage.
Ian
