M$ + Yahoo = Disaster for Y! Users

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 07 February 2008, James R. Sissel wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 2/7/2008 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Thursday 07 February 2008, James Sissel wrote:
> > > I don't mind paying them $20 a year for a 24x7 post office.  I download
> > > everything from them every 15 minutes while my PC is running.  Better
> > > than I could do at home.  I also don't mind paying the phone company
> > > for a phone, the gas company for gas, the electricity company for
> > > electricity, etc.  Sure, I COULD do all that myself ... but why?
> >
> >A better question is WHY spend the money for INCONVENIENCE?
> >Why pay them to receive mail and give it to you every 15 minutes when you
> >could just have the mail be delivered directly to you faster and cheaper?
>
>Why?  Because "while my PC is running" means my PC isn't running all the
>time.  So if email came in while my PC wasn't running it wouldn't get to
>me.  And my power here is often interrupted so much that I've got UPSes on
>everything.  Running an email server here at home would be unreliable.

Why wouldn't it get to you? The relevant RFCs require relays to attempt at 
least more than one attempt to deliver. Only spammers do not follow this.