04-14-2006, 09:09 AM
Quote:A US security vendor claims to have discovered the reason for Yahoos alleged poor email delivery as many as half its email hosts can be closed at any one time...
According to trimMails Email Battles site, which recently monitored 16 of the companys advertised email hosts 240 times over a half hour period, only 133 of its probes were answered. Many of the servers were closed and unavailable.
Overall availability ranged from 25 percent to 75 percent over the admittedly short test period. The average availability was 55 percent, with the worst of the servers available only 7 percent of the time...
Yahoo struggles with a reputation for mediocre service in some quarters...
full article: http://www.techworld.com/applications/ne...ewsID=5790