On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Jim Browne wrote: | Does anyone have a contact at Netcom that understands that SMTP is not | transported via POP (or port 110) and who could possibly figure out why | Netcom's mail servers are unreachable by us and several other providers? It simply takes minutes to connect to one of their mail servers. It almost appears that they are under a SYN flood? I know that we have already fielded customer complaints about poor Netcom mail performance. ========================================================================= Kit Knox - <kit@connectnet.com> - System Administrator CONNECTnet INS, Inc. - 6370 Lusk Blvd Ste F#208 - San Diego, CA 92121 (619) 638-2020 - (619) 638-2024 Voicemail/Pager - (619) 450-3216 FAX =========================================================================