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can't foind it, going to bed will send tomorrow
Trefor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
> Sent: 14 November 1998 13:18
> To: GP-UK
> Subject: RE: Problem with Internet SMTP email.
>
>
> > From: Amrit Takhar <[log in to unmask]>
>
> There are a couple of sensible points here and then the usual sarcastic, but
> true comment:-
>
> The NHS Infozone, correct me if I am wrong, is available only on NHS Net Web
> connections, and yet it is being used to report a fault affecting ony users
> outside the NHS Net...
> I move that the relevant page be placed in the NHS Net DMZ, or alternatively
> and as a temporary measure which could be effected within half an hour of
> someone who understands this reading it in NHS Net, mirrored to a site
> outside NHS Net. If there is a shortage of space I will provide it.
>
> All orgs with noticeable numbers of correspondents outside, using SMTP email
> to do business with them should either set up a daily commcheck with one of
> those correspondents, non-return of a commcheck email causing telephone
> activity and escalation, or <heresy> they should buy in an outside ISP
> connection for one isolated PC </heresy>, and do the check themselves.
> If it fails, then an email to their list of correspondents to admit the
> problem would not be an unreasonable thing to do - secrecy suggests an
> attempt to cover up incompetence, not hordes of techies beavering away in
> the background.
>
> As a parallel my local HA moved its voice phones from BT to Eurobell to save
> money and secure technical advantages...(Centrex, since you ask.)
> Did they, you ask, remove every BT line and phone from the place and go
> entirely over to Eurobell, trusting in the lord?
> No. They kept a couple of BT lines here and there, with a warning to
> minimise use because they are more expensive, and inthe event of a problem
> with one supplier they use the other.
>
> One of the recurring NHS management cockups[1] in IM&T is to go for a big
> bang and commit to a single supplier/solution etc. While nobody wants
> massive duplication, a degree of redundancy is to be encouraged.
>
> > A serious issue has arisen with the SMTP gateway which receives email
> > from the Internet. We suspect it is a malign flaming of emails from the
> > internet, and not necessarily exclusive to NHSnet.
> It would be entirely sensible to publicise any details of a flamer should
> they be ascertained, and if we meet them we could _discuss_ it with them.
> Sounds a bit odd though, what sort of volume is involved in stuffing a major
> corporate gateway? Or is the gateway on one old 486?
> I think a T3 line would probably be sufficient for the primary, and a couple
> of separate T1 lines for backup and peak periods.
>
>
> >The NHS
> > Telecommunications Branch are doing everything in their power to remove
> > the resultant backlog of messages, but there could be a delivery delay
> > of SMTP email of up to a few days. New equipment is being installed to
> > improve the performance of the gateway by a factor of 10 and should be
> > operational by the end of the month.
>
> <sarcasm?> er, pick up from shop, take out of box, plug in, go...</sarcasm?
>
>
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> [1] CockUPS: synonym for Viagra
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