Re: design specifics --- the config label

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:02:11PM -0400, Raymond S Brand wrote:
> >
> > How many domain names use more than one mail service provider for
> > outbound internet mail?
> >
> 
> I was surprised myself but I received tons of mails with comments
> to my draft where people explained how complicated their mail
> delivery is and from how many service providers or notebooks they
> deliver.

Please correct me it I'm wrong here: this statement seems to imply
that the owners of ${DOMAIN} are OK with any ISP being able to send
mail from ${DOMAIN}, so long as one of ${DOMAIN}'s employees is a
customer of the ISP.

> While people usually have only a single mail service provider,
> many still tend to deliver through different channels.

I expect that most domain names use only one or two providers for
their outbound mail. The ones that use many providers will be more
expensive to handle, no matter which bookkeeping scheme is used.


Raymond S Brand