Re: List administration

[Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>]

On 2003-12-03, Dean Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Ólafur Gudmundsson/DNSEXT co-chair wrote:
> 
> > <chair>
> > At 19:47 2003-12-02, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > >I think that if PSG does not have the resources to handle the mail for
> > >namedroppers without capriciously deleted mail, then it should be handed
> > >to someone else who does have the resources.
> > 
> > There is a big difference between having resources and publicly
> > intimidating a random ISP. Take your pick on what Randy was saying.
> 
> He said he was altering the operations of his mail servers to delete mail
> that wasn't delivered in one hour.  This is unreasonable, regardless of
> what Verizon does.

Yes, it utterly unreasonable.  Things go wrong in the real
world:  power utilities have disasters; fires, floods and solar
flares cause problems; computer hardware loses its magic smoke.
Many people have stopped using backup MX hosts, as these just
seem to collect extra spam.

Because of all these factors, mailing lists should be prepared
to queue mail to subscribers for at least a few days.  If some
mailing list server is unwilling or unable to manage that, it
needs to hand over the job to a competent organisation.

Greg

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