Re: [Assp-user] Mailhop Backup MX?

[Jeroen v. A. <kr...@at...>]

Melvin wrote:
> How do I get a job where you are?  As an alternative, how do you manage 
> to fire all the clueless less offs (oops, that should be more ons) who 

Well what I mean to say is that you should stand up to the whims of 
people who do not understand what you do. Just as they wouldn't accept, 
for example, marketing nonsense from an IT person. What if you demanded 
from them, using marketing again as an example, that they have a 100% 
response on every brochure they send out, or that *gasp* 100% of those 
will arrive AND be read.

> used to work where you are.  Either alternative would make my life 
> infinitely easier, although it also might mean there would be less need 
> for my services.  Dang, there's always a catch.  :)

No worries about becoming absolete, if that ever would happen it would 
already have happened. You just have to be firm and tell people the 
truth, email is not a guaranteed service, and use a few impressive 
websites and RFCs to further your claim. Once they realise that indeed 
this is the case and that almost everyone administrating servers and 
many users agree to that they will give up.

Greetings,
Jeroen