 | | | and an hour later . . . | and an hour later . . . 2006-06-21 - By steve
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All of the big guys; Comcast and Quest, Via West and just about everyone
else 'share" the infrastructure and even though technically they're not
supposed to, it's kind of a matter of necessity. When one backbone takes a
heavy traffic load some of that load can be spread out to other networks and
hubs and visa versa. Sometimes your mail can go on a one "hop" straight to
Yahoo or take 8 hops from Chicago to Kansas to San Jose to Seattle and back
to Denver for instance and through each hop it can be filtered through an
ISP's servers and individual spam filters (all with their own protocols and
different brands of virus software) and they can just sit and bounce around
for awhile before they get routed back to where they are supposed to go.
This is why VPN's are so nice because they are a point to point virtual
tunnel, much safer and direct. I think someone mentioned recently that email
is just going to get worse in time and it's correct. Already in the past
release of Hex and Carrara and so forth we've seen Eovia run into trouble
where their email notifications get sent to spam folders and customers get
up in arms about never being notified about this or that or the other and
it's not really anything that they can control or do anything about
realistically.
I can't email AOL from my own Exchange server using my domain. I get seen as
spam and there is nothing I can do about it except to report it. The only
way to do anything about it eventually may be to just build a new internet
with hardware firewalls on every hub or switch or some similar thing to trap
spam and viruses because the viruses and spammers get as clever as the
software protection on a daily basis just about. It really may be World War
III in a sense, we are ever more dependent on the internet for our daily
news and information and that's not going to change. All it could
theoretically take is one super- worm or virus to knock it all out and we'd
be helpless. lol
Steven
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From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Peter MacDougall
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:55 PM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: Re: [Carrara] and an hour later . . .
Welcome to the internet where information goes into limbo, takes a
shortcut through an infinite number of monkey junctions, and comes back
out just when it is most inconvenient and embarrassing.... heh :)
Happened to me before.
steven_mcq wrote:
> . . .they show up.
>
> Never had this happen to me before, and I've made, maybe, a thousand
> posts to Yahoo Groups.
>
> How does something get delayed in limbo that way? Did someone light a
> candle and pray?
>
> SMcQ
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