On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Ivan Groenewald wrote:
There's also the deeper question: Why do we let the situation persist? Why do we tolerate the continued problems from unreachable companies? (And yes, this *is* an operational issue - what did that 4 hours on the
Earlier, Valdis scribbled: phone cost your company's bottom line in wasted time?)
To a certain extent, it's simple economic logic. At the end of the day, I got my issue sorted and it cost me 4 hours of billable time. It cost the other party 15 minutes of time. Why employ another person full time to deal with queries or man an email desk, to save *me* 3h45min? It makes economic sense for bigger companies not to, well, "care". They aren't going to go away, you're not going to get in the way of the big Google/MS/BigCorp(tm) engine with gripes on your blog, so why bother spending more money on helping *you*?
It might sound very black and white, but I can tell you now that a lot of these companies use that as a rationale even without thinking about it so directly.
actually, working for a largish company, I'd say one aspect not recognized is the scale on their side of the problem... abuse@mci|uu|vzb gets (on a bad month) 800k messages, on a 'good' month only 400k ... how many do yahoo/google/msn get? How many do their role accounts get for hostmaster/postmaster/routing/peering ?? Expecting that you can send an email and get a response 'quickly' is just no reasonable unless you expect just an auto-ack from their ticketting system. -Chris