Week of January 25, 2009 - January 31, 2009
This is just pathetic...
TPM Capital Wire linked to this:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/26/white-house-press-office-hit-by-e-mail-outage/
"Obama press staffers had just made the leap to their official White House e-mail addresses Monday morning when the Outlook server went down."
<snip>
"An apologetic Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at 1:30 pm press briefing that the server meltdown was responsible for the delay in responding to their e-mailed questions. But late Monday, nearly six hours since the server first went haywire, staffers still can't use their official e-mail addresses -- and a press aide could not tell CNN when the press office might be able to start sending and receiving messages again."
I'd like to be very clear here: this is not the Obamites fault. Outhouse, and the associated software, doesn't deliver mail; it delivers fail. In that, it is reliable.
But if you run Outhouse, you deserve to lose. No, that's not a typo. It's called Outhouse for a reason. I imagine that the story should also mention Exchange.
There are now, and have been for some time (decades) industrial strength MTAs. Postfix, Exim, and qmail just off the top of my head; and there are a variety of ways to send and receive email that do not require Microsoft. There is just no longer any excuse to depend on Outhouse or Suxchange.
Six hours without email? SIX HOURS? The bonobo responsible for locking the Obamites in that proprietary platform should be glared at, severely.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/26/white-house-press-office-hit-by-e-mail-outage/
"Obama press staffers had just made the leap to their official White House e-mail addresses Monday morning when the Outlook server went down."
<snip>
"An apologetic Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at 1:30 pm press briefing that the server meltdown was responsible for the delay in responding to their e-mailed questions. But late Monday, nearly six hours since the server first went haywire, staffers still can't use their official e-mail addresses -- and a press aide could not tell CNN when the press office might be able to start sending and receiving messages again."
I'd like to be very clear here: this is not the Obamites fault. Outhouse, and the associated software, doesn't deliver mail; it delivers fail. In that, it is reliable.
But if you run Outhouse, you deserve to lose. No, that's not a typo. It's called Outhouse for a reason. I imagine that the story should also mention Exchange.
There are now, and have been for some time (decades) industrial strength MTAs. Postfix, Exim, and qmail just off the top of my head; and there are a variety of ways to send and receive email that do not require Microsoft. There is just no longer any excuse to depend on Outhouse or Suxchange.
Six hours without email? SIX HOURS? The bonobo responsible for locking the Obamites in that proprietary platform should be glared at, severely.
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