Netcom Contact ?

Wed Oct 1 19:38:22 UTC 1997

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Jim Browne wrote:

| Does anyone have a contact at Netcom that understands that SMTP is not
| transported via POP (or port 110) and who could possibly figure out why
| Netcom's mail servers are unreachable by us and several other providers?

It simply takes minutes to connect to one of their mail servers.  It
almost appears that they are under a SYN flood?  I know that we have
already fielded customer complaints about poor Netcom mail performance.

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