Re: Keep Alive Response Codes

Paul Smith writes:
> I really don't think an SMTP service extension would solve the problem 
> - the problem is system administrators who decide they know better 
> than the standards and set low timeouts.
Can you talk a little about those system administrators? How many are 
there of them?
A friend who did a little analysis said that 100.0% of the hosts that 
gave up too quickly and switched to the secondary MX were actually 
sending spam. IIRC "quickly" meant 45 seconds and he looked at around a 
thousand messages. Not a really big sample, but enough that I would 
look for counterevidence before assuming that the conclusion is wrong.
Arnt