[Info-vax] What is the correct way to contact VSI?

[Michael Moroney]

Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

>People need to stop thinking of email as reliable.  It most definitely 
>is not.

>A short while back Roland and I were having a discussion about 
>communications.  I maintained that a valid communication system must 
>include handshakes to insure both sides of the communication were 
>notified of completion.  Very explicit handshakes.  That really doesn't 
>exist in email.

It does with VMSMail on DECnet.  Hit Send and you don't see the MAIL> prompt
until the mail is either delivered or you got an error message stating the
node is not reachable or whatever.

[not counting addons like NMAIL to (eventually) deliver mail to a node that 
seems to be gone for a while]

Of course as abrsvc points out the real problem wasn't undelivered email but
email mistakenly directed to a spam folder.