[Gllug] Thinkpad harddisk wanted.

[will]

Ian Northeast wrote:

> Nix wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ian Northeast muttered drunkenly:
>>
>>>PS apologies if this has crossed any answer; Demon's mail "service" is
>>>going through an even more crap than usual phase ATM.
>>>
>>But, er,
>>
>>: Received: from house-from-hell.demon.co.uk (celeron [192.168.1.1])
>>:       by router.ewell.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA32381
>>:       for <gllug at linux.co.uk>; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:00:00 GMT
>>
>>you're routing mail directly and not going via Demon's smarthost, so any
>>SNAFUs with that (of which as far as I know there are presently none)
>>would be irrelevant.
>>
> 
> Indeed, no problems with outgoing mail but I am receiving my mail from
> Demon's wonderful punts. So anything posted by anyone else crosses the
> Andes by llama train before I receive it.
> 
> I was doing some testing at work the other day, for which I use a dialup
> Demon account (not this one) to test sending mail outside the company.
> Mail sent to Demon was taking up to 5 hours to arrive.


Well I don't use demon for mail but I do use their dial up ISP at home 
so that I can practice tracerouting and pinging to find out where my 
connection is failing...[0]

We have a lot of webhosting clients and a helluva lot were complaining 
of mail being lost/delayed when it was sent to a demon email address. 
The longest delay on mail was days.  This was a month before christmas 
or so.

Will.


[0]To be fair it has got better this last week, I think they added more 
capacity.

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