[plug] [OT] iiNet, ADSL, & Westnet

[raven at themaw.net]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 raven at themaw.net wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 15:39, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > > It seems iiNet is coming out with some VERY attractive ADSL deals:
> > >    http://www.iinet.net.au/products/home/bliink/updates/bliink.html
> > > (Is this to do with their roll-out of their own network, or are there other 
> > > forces at work here?)
> > > 
> > > However, I'm a fan of Westnet (whilst never being a customer of them yet ^_^).
> > > 
> > > Has anyone heard any goss about Westnet bringing out comparable plans to 
> > > iiNet?
> > > 
> > > Is iiNet really that bad / Westnet really that good? ^_^
> > 
> > In my experience, iiNet's _mail_ _servers_ are that bad, yes. We have
> > lots of trouble communicating with iiNet customers (and did even when we
> > still got out IP connectivity via iiNet) because of their eternally
> > overloaded mail servers. It's mostly viruses, attacks and spam, but that
> > doesn't excuse the basic fact - they just don't have enough capacity.
> 
> Second that.
> 
> iiNet mail servers started forwarding dupplicate copies of my messages to 
> a mailing list. They claimed it wasn't their problem.
> 
> On the third day at midnight I sent copies of 97 messages to their support 
> and advised them which server was causing the problem to get it fixed.

Oh, I didn't mention the short fuse on their delivery retry did I.

Caused me grief as well.

It wouldn't be a problem if their mail servers played well with others.

Ian