Count me in. I'm seeing the same problem.
Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
> [snip]
> > I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff,
> > and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact
> > Yahoo and pester them to get their system working. These failures are
> > all too common on their global system, and have been occurring for
> > months now.
> >
> > Please give me any feedback, flames, comments, etc, and if they are
> > personal, direct them to me personally. If they are useful for others
> > to see (not just for your ego but for general list education about
> > this problem), post them to the list.
>
> I have logfiles with several deferred deliveries, either 'connected to
> blah but connection died' or just plainly 'wasnt able to establish an
> SMTP connection'.
>
> My co-worker who does the old sendmail boxes reports several
> (Deferred: Connection timed out with pop.yahoo.nl.)
> in the sendmail queue.
>
> Yahoo is actually mentioned in a memo in my Palm PDA as a very good
> reason for a distributed concurrencyremote (one that doesn't dedicate
> all concurrency to a single remote host, not even by accident). This
> refers to the march 2000 'incident' (incidents don't last for weeks, do
> they?) where people actually had problems with yahoo *taking up all
> concurrencyremote* with deferrals that took a long time to happen.
>
> I'll support your cause. What can I do?
>
> Greetz, Peter
> --
> dataloss networks
> '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me
> 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me
