Hi Don, My guess would be this: 0. Most traffic to a mail server is spam 1. Put your mail server and spam filters somewhere where bandwidth is cheaper than here 2. Have less traffic going across your expensive international link b/c you have no spam 3. Profit??? (question marks because this is something ISPs in NZ are not known for.) Cheers, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Don Gould [mailto:don(a)bowenvale.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 27 August 2007 3:33 p.m. To: nznog Subject: [nznog] Why is xtra.mail in AU? Doing some traceroutes to the xtra mail servers, it would appear they've moved all their mail handling to AU. Does anyone have any idea why? It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ. Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something? Cheers Don _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog