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Yahoo's Amazing Disappearing Mail Servers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here-then-gone dept.

Golygydd Max writes "A Techworld story reveals that the reason Yahoo email has delivery problems is that the company's mail servers mysteriously close once in a while." From the article: "According to trimMail's Email Battles site, which recently monitored 16 of the company's advertised email hosts 240 times over a half hour period, only 133 of its probes were answered. Many of the servers were closed and unavailable. Overall availability ranged from 25 percent to 75 percent over the admittedly short test period. The average availability was 55 percent, with the worst of the servers available only 7 percent of the time."

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  1. Is this caveat emptor day? by WebHostingGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was under the impression that Yahoo! mail was free. Isn't the rule you get what you pay for? Seriously though, why would Yahoo put a ton of money into something which is not a revenue generator. Free email is so yesterday.

    And if you don't like what I am saying you can reach me at:

    server-never-works@yahoo.com

    and really let me know how you feel about this. Well, you can at least reach 7 to 55% of the time.

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    1. Re:Is this caveat emptor day? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


      Still it's way better than hotmail.

      Print out the mail you wish to send then smear feces on it. Tie it to the leg of a blind pigeon. Release the pigeon then taking pot-shots at it. The results are still better than hotmail.

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  2. Maybe they were having a bad day... by Osrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is hardly a news story. Tomorrow: 100% of people on my front porch stub their toe at 10:19am on Friday morning. Porch declared a national disaster zone, FEMA are organizing evacuation flights.

  3. Going back in time? by xRelisH · · Score: 3, Funny

    My guess is that these servers along with Babylon 4 went back in time to aid the Vorlons and Minbari in the first Shadow war.

    1. Re:Going back in time? by DangerSteel · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... and some of you people wonder why you can't pick up chicks...

  4. no wonder by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought the reason for my spam reduction was because of their filters...

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  5. Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    One can only assume they are running the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Exchange with the same level of stability as Hillary Clinton carrying Rosie Rosie O'Donnell piggy-back at an NRA convention.

  6. And in other discoveries by dmeranda · · Score: 3, Funny

    And in other brilliant studies:

    * Ethernet packets found to collide sometimes, resulting in worldwide communications silence.

    * Some traffic lights found to periodically turn red almost 50% of the time; transportation system grinds to a halt.

    * Study finds that if you call someone every 15 seconds and ask "can you hear me now?", unexplicably none of your calls will be answered, in addition to getting strange looks.

    * Fast food restaurant closes one of its eight queues at the shift change; six people starve to death as a result.