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| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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4623.0. "MSN shuts down mail for 24-36 hours for an upgrade with no prior warning!" by teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer (Danny Mayer) Fri Apr 18 1997 10:00
To: ISP program team <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
Normandy Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: MSN shuts down mail for 24-36 hours for an upgrade with no prior warning!
From: Marc Nozell <[email protected]>
Date: 17 Apr 1997 16:11:44 -0400
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X-Info: IBG Mail Server
X-Listmember: [email protected]
Not a good way to run an ISP.
-marc
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From http://www.msnbc.com/news/69466.asp
MSN shuts down e-mail for upgrade Maintenance work could take 36 hours
NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday
that its Microsoft Network has shut down its
worldwide electronic mail service in order
to upgrade its e-mail servers. Microsoft is
a partner in MSNBC.
The installation will take about 24 to 36
hours, starting from 8:00 p.m. ET on April
16, the company said. During this time,
Microsoft Network members worldwide will not
be able to access or receive e-mail, it
said. The e-mail server installation will
not affect the service as a whole members
will still be able to access the Internet
and all MSN programming apart from e-mail
during the upgrade.
The network, with approximately 2.2 million
subscribers, took the servers offline for
unexpected maintenance work. No prior
announcement was made of the interruption in
service, which could inconvenience many of
customers who rely on e-mail for business
communications.
A message to customers on the Microsoft
online service, the world's third largest,
said the network experienced a partial
outage of its e-mail service earlier this
week that prompted it to accelerate an
expansion of its e-mail capacity that had
been planned for later this month.
Similar growing pains at rival America
Online, the world's largest online provider
with eight million members, led to a
cyberspace blackout late last year that
prompted a consumer outcry and culminated in
lawsuits.
The rapid expansion of online services has
sparked debate over whether they have an
obligation to be as reliable as utilities
such as telephone and electric service.
Reuters contributed to this story.
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| 4623.1 | Good reason not to allow the post office to become an ISP | SMURF::GAF | Jerry Feldman, Unix Dev. Environment, DTN:381-2970 | Fri Apr 18 1997 11:07 | 8 |
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>Not a good way to run an ISP.
Very true. Not only this, but when a major provider decides to block
incoming email, that causes mail queues all over the Internet to grow,
which causes some delays in email processing. List servers are
particularly vulnerable to this. One ISP solution was when the mail
queues grew too large, he would dump all the mail into UUCP. The recent
AOL email problems even caused systems at BBNPlanet to crash.
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