Sqwertz > wrote:

>A web hosting company provides web space for users to place their
>pages. They are supposed to be "server gurus" that maintain 99.999%
>availability since people rely on them to keep their web pages
>available 100% of the time. Most of them also provide mail hosting.

>In which case, they should be using their own servers and domain
>for mail and not relying on a third party. It's very unprofessional
>to use third-party servers when you run your own supposedly reliable
>servers.

This makes no sense. Mail administration is a lot of work.
If you only have a few users it makes sense not to do it
even if you run servers for other things, and even if you
have all the necessary skills. A lot of orgainzations
these days wait until they are 20 or 30 people before they
even think about standalone email administration. They just
use yahoo or gmail until then. Their man-hours are better spent
on other, money-making efforts than running email.

Steve