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"Steven A. DuChene" <sad@sduchene.mindspring.com> writes:

> >to the SMTP daemon on his dialup machine.  We try to discourage that
> >approach because it can lead to unpredictable mail loss and delays if
> >he's not connected when delivery is attempted.

> 	I have been doing exactly that for almost a year now and haven't had
> 	any problems so far. I belong to at least three different mailing
> 	lists and regularly receive all the messages from those lists.

As the guy who received much bounced mail from people taking this
route, all I can say is that you're playing fast and loose with your
mail.  Even if you never lose any, you're still introducing needless
delays because of the way that most SMTP delivery agents back off from
retrying after a certain number or period of failed delivery attempts.

It also creates extra work for the sending machines and holds up their
mail queues.  We've had to be very aggressive in tuning our mail
delivery agents to optimize sending to the machines that respond
immediately and retrying unreachable destinations very infrequently.
Otherwise your mail queue runs take forever and nobody's mail is
timely.  That kind of tuning is by no means uncommon.

> 	What exactly does this mean? Someone will still be able to send me
> 	mail and do talks to sad@sduchene.mindspring.com?

It'll actually be sduchene.users.mindspring.com (we'd like something
shorter), but yes.

  -- Robert