[Techtalk] backup MX trade

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Katie Bechtold wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a crazy idea or not, but I'll throw it
> out anyway.  I have cable modem service at home (but no longer
> @home), and one of the machines on my network is an email server for
> my registered domain name.  Every now and then, through either my or
> my ISP's incompetence, something happens that makes my server
> inaccessible to the outside world.  This doesn't happen very often,
> and it usually doesn't last more than a day, but it is kinda
> annoying when people writing to me get bounce messages.
> 
> So I'm asking if any of you who run your own low-traffic email
> server would like to "trade" backup MX service with me.  I know that
> there are commercial backup MX services out there, but I think
> cooperation could achieve the same result more cheaply for
> low-traffic servers.
> 
> Or if anybody knows of free backup MX service, I'd be glad to know
> about that, too. 

I would be *very* happy to trade backup MX with ya, and anyone else
who's a regular poster. Not to people I have *no* knowledge of, sorry.
Write me off-list.

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