[plug] Email delivery WAS: Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN

[William Kenworthy]

gawd, paranoia ... delay is a most unlikely symptom if someone with the
knowhow was going to peruse iinets mail pathway.

How about the fact that iinet seems to keep getting hit by spam and mail
bombs? - isnt that a little more likely and a little less paranoic?  Or
perhaps they have just under-resourced their mail server?

BillK


On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:37, bob wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:40 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:17 pm, bob wrote:
> > > Seem to have missed that post, wonder where it got to?
> >
> > Popped up here in its place between Leon Blackwell and Russell.
> 
> Nope, still haven't seen it :(. 
> 
> Ok, this is probably only the paranoia talking but does anyone know what the 
> topology of iinet is like wrt port 25? Is there something carnivore like 
> lurking in the bushes? 
> 
> I say this because I have multiple instances of emails taking _hours_ to 
> traverse iinet (both ends use iinet as ISP, both ends run smtpd's) or 
> occasionally disappearing entirely. Headers show the mail leaving remote 
> site as expected and should then virtually instantly arrive at my gateway 
> but _something_ happens inbetween that is not being shown because large 
> globs of time go by before anything arrives :(. 
> 
> I would suspect that I'd borked something up but it seems to mostly effect 
> iinet and no one else. 
> 
> Oh well... the laser kits from Altronics look a good solution :).
> 
> > Cheers; Leon
> 
> -- 
> ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
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