Author: Graeme Fowler Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:23 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > I don't think one can blame an email provider for lost email just as one
> can't blame a telephone provider for dropped or missed calls. Or at
> least it should be that way. Plus I am sure any sane email provider adds
> a nice long disclaimer to be accepted before usage of their service is
> allowed.
All together now: "Plusnet" !!!
(with apologies to those affected by that particular storage-related
problem last year, whether customers or staff).
They got plenty of blame for that one, rightly or wrongly. Those who
aren't familiar with the problem who are bothered to, please Google for
"Plusnet email outage 2006". OK, so it wasn't a false positive of any
sort, but it still demonstrates how customers can be affected...
