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>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:06:08 -0700
>To: majordomo-Users@greatcircle.com
>From: Bob Bish <bobbish@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: Hotmail
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>At 05:16 AM 2/5/2003, Wouter van der Velde wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I have problems with the hotmail mailservers.
>>Some messages posted to my mailinglist are bounced by hotmail. All hotmail
>>subscribers don't receive those messages.
>>
>>How could this be solved?
>
> It can't.
> It's not spam filters as others have suggested (at least, not to my
>knowledge). If it were, the failures would be more consistent.
> It's Hotmail. It is flaky and unreliable. This problem has existed
>for years. It's mail servers just occasionally crap out, possibly by
>overloading. There's nothing you can do but suggest that Hotmail users
>change to Yahoo or some other web-based e-mail service.
> Hotmail is owned by Microsoft. Need I say more?
Yes, it is owned by Microsoft, but, I have read more than one article,
that Microsofts hotmail is run on BSD based servers. This was true as of last
year, and I believe that microsoft is trying to migrate hotmail to Windows
NT/2000 based servers, I'm not sure that has happened yet. As far as I know,
until I read otherwise, hotmail is based on BSD Unix. I doubt that BSD would
crap out as a mail server.
Someone other than me would be able to provide more details, but when
Microsoft bought the Hotmail a few years back, it was based on BSD. Microsoft
came in and attempted to switch it over to Windows NT. Windows NT fell flat on
it's face and it was moved back to BSD. And they have been trying to get
whatever variant of Windows to scale to the point where they can move in Windows
to handle the load. But as far as I kow, that has not happend yet. or so the
story goes ...
Jim
>
>...Bob
>
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Jim
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