I received this e-mail, raising another concern: ----- Due to Y2K security reasons Thomson & Thomson will not accept inbound Internet mail between 12/31/99 - 1/4/00. We trust this will not unduly inconvenience you, please contact Thomson & Thomson at (800) 692-8833 for assistance or further clarification. All mail services will be available on 1/5/00 and we look forward to working with you in 2000.
Thank you for your consideration -----
Debate the business ramifications if you wish. Something else seems more important: if a majority of e-mail servers had been managed in this way, we all could be offline for days.
Imagine every server re-sending every e-mail every four hours or so, for four days, then finally sending four days' mail successfully at 08:00 on 5 Jan 2000
Remember that throughout that time, Company A would reply to Company B's rejection of their e-mail with a similar rejection each time, and vice versa. Would we call that growth curve geometric, exponential, or NASDAQian?
Question: Bob's Company and Sue's Company are afraid of Y2K e-mail, and reject everything. Each uses an otherwise standard sendmail configuration. If Bob sends two e-mails each day to Sue, and Sue sends one e-mail each day to Bob, how many e-mails would Bob receive on the fourth day?
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I received this e-mail, raising another concern:
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Due to Y2K security reasons Thomson & Thomson will not accept inbound Internet mail between 12/31/99 - 1/4/00. We trust this will not unduly inconvenience you, please contact Thomson & Thomson at (800) 692-8833 for assistance or further clarification. All mail services will be available on 1/5/00 and we look forward to working with you in 2000.
Thank you for your consideration
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Debate the business ramifications if you wish. Something else seems more important: if a majority of e-mail servers had been managed in this way, we all could be offline for days.
Imagine every server re-sending every e-mail every four hours or so, for four days, then finally sending four days' mail successfully at 08:00 on 5 Jan 2000
Remember that throughout that time, Company A would reply to Company B's rejection of their e-mail with a similar rejection each time, and vice versa. Would we call that growth curve geometric, exponential, or NASDAQian?
Question: Bob's Company and Sue's Company are afraid of Y2K e-mail, and reject everything. Each uses an otherwise standard sendmail configuration. If Bob sends two e-mails each day to Sue, and Sue sends one e-mail each day to Bob, how many e-mails would Bob receive on the fourth day?
Answer: probably none--at least for a week or so.
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