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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <8DL9VB2w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:16:30 EST
- References: <BzJ21E.8uI@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-
- > But maybe it's time for all the uucp sites to set up their own
- > second-level domain names just like everyone is always advising.
- > Then we'd find out how well the system really works.
-
- Will we? How? Pardon me for inserting myself back into the discussion...
-
- Just how do we go about monitoring the overall status of mail? I'd say
- that there is no way to measure the general health of the net in this
- regard. For example, it might be useful to know the number of messages
- bounced in the last day (say, because of "no such site" from DNS queries).
-
- There will always be those who say "it's working just great" because they
- have no indication that mail is actually failing, even though it may be
- doing so in large amounts.
-
- Obviously, one cannot reasonably test mail to a large percentage of sites
- on a regular basis in any sort of exhaustive fashion (or can one?). Is
- there anything in any flavor of SNMP that addresses email delivery stat-
- istics? That is not likely, as the problem lies several layers above
- that usually addressed in those net statistic measurement protocols.
-
- >
- > Les Mikesell
- > les@chinet.chi.il.us
-
-
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