<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 22:07, Michael Richter wrote:<br>> Arguably the largest ISP in the world (and very certainly in the top
<br>> ten) -- China Netcom -- doesn't provide native ISP email at all.<br>> Almost all of its subscribers interact by email solely through<br>> webmail. Conclusion? Your experiences in owning a "small ISP" don't
<br>> mean a damned thing.<br><br>If you mean to imply that China Netcom blocks port 25, what<br>relevance does that have to local delivery of system messages?<br></blockquote></div><br>
You said, based on your self-vaunted experience owning a "small ISP"
that most people don't use webmail. I pointed out that one of the
single largest ISPs in the world has the overwhelming majority of its
users relying on webmail. My point should have been
obvious. (Hint: the words "you are wrong" feature prominently in
the point.)<br>