Wayback Wednesday: The joy of do-it-yourself IT

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This holding company owns a handful of subsidiaries that all run independently — which keeps things interesting for an IT pilot fish who
works there.In IT, we are often told to just make it work when one company buys its own software,& fish says
&Websites are one thing that we have managed to unify, except for one company that insists on using its own provider and managing
themselves.Email for all the companies is also on fish servers, and that works without a hitch — at least until the day fish gets a
frantic call from the subsidiary with its own website
The problem: No outside emails are arriving.After fish sits through the standard chewing-out about how the business can''t function without
email, he starts testing
Sure enough, no outside email is reaching the subsidiary
It isn''t even reaching the mail servers.