[wellylug] Administrivia: broken mail servers

[Donald Gordon]

On 14/04/2004, at 10:36 PM, Phillip Hutchings wrote:

>
> On 14/04/2004, at 10:26 PM, Michael Dittmer wrote:
>
>> I have this setup at home on cable, but all my mail queues into my 
>> mailbox
>> at Paradise and then my Mail Server pulls it down from there, so 
>> stopping
>> the issue below.
>>
>> I would recommend this setup for anyone using Cable or DSL as it 
>> stops the
>> below issue.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael
>
> I've never had problems with Cable connectivity, unless I take the 
> server down. Since I run an IRC server, there would be people 
> complaining if it went down :P

Last year, the old COM21 cable network went down for a *whole day* 
once.  Not good.

Currently, I actually use a backup MX (shock, horror), on one of those 
US$20/mo User Mode Linux partitions various people in the US offer.  
This is the sort of thing people could easily share, if they wanted 
some form of backup.  All my mail comes back to NZ from it via IPv6, 
too :-)

donald