Earthlink losing email

(Via Slashdot) Robert Cringely is reporting that Earthlink is losing the vast majority of email, apparently due to overloaded servers. Cringley reports that up to 80-90 percent of Earthlink email is being lost.

Interestingly enough, recent news reports are that some email providers are reporting that 80-90 percent of email is spam. If Earthlink is seeing those same numbers, then we can safely say that there wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have all that spam to deal with.

One Slashdot reader says that the problem is not with the regular mail servers, but with a specialty server used by roaming clients.