Friendly XO Mail-operational contact ?

Wed Nov 7 12:55:02 UTC 2007

On 7 Nov 2007, at 12:50, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> You sure XO hasn't been playing with banner delays, and your MTA is
> timing out before establishing an smtp connection?

Yep

andy at chilli:~$ time telnet dalsmlprd08.dal.dc.xo.com 25
Trying 207.88.96.46...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

real    0m0.170s

I did call their NOC who couldn't help directly (which I expected),  
but also couldn't pass me on to someone who could. 