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| From | Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking, comp.mail.sendmail, comp.mail.misc |
| Subject | MailServer econ101 |
| Date | 2012-11-11 06:05 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <k7nf7o$p5p$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Many apparent technical problems have socio-economic explanations. The US telephone monopolist AT&T was broken up decades ago. The SouthAfrican Telkom monopoly was broken in this decade by Neotel -- said to be financed by Indian capital/money. With its fixed-wireless technology, mostly for speech, Neotel took a lead in laying the fiber-optic network. Given the relatively unsophisticated customer base, most Neotel end-users didn't use their internet facilities. [Africans are BIG talkers and small readers]. As would be expected, the default email interface, supplied by Neotel is Micro$loth web-based and wastes much time and connection costs; which is what Neotel would want. With some effort, linux users could access Neotel's mail-server directly - and much faster. Now after a year, their mail server is out-of-order, giving <wrong password errors>. And live enquiries to their <help desk> is futile. Is this perhaps the explanation? With the increased crime & general degeneration causing white-flight from S. Africa, there's a shortage of people who can run a mailserver. And it's more profitable for Neotel to have their clients use eg. gmail and thus use 10 times the online time and data costs. Have you analysed the absurd dialog for http-based gmail ?! Are gmail servers located in the local/small countries for faster access? WDYS?
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MailServer econ101 Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-11-11 06:05 +0000
Re: MailServer econ101 Steve Baker <bakesph@comcast.net> - 2012-11-11 03:41 -0500
Re (2): MailServer econ101 Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-11-11 10:26 +0000
Re: Re (2): MailServer econ101 "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-11-11 16:55 +0100
Re: Re (2): MailServer econ101 Joe Zeff <the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info> - 2012-11-11 16:28 +0000
Re: Re (2): MailServer econ101 Steve Baker <bakesph@comcast.net> - 2012-11-12 22:49 -0500
Re (2): MailServer econ101 Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2012-11-15 19:34 +0000
Re: MailServer econ101 bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-11-12 16:57 -0600
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