On Thursday 25 May 2006 03:36, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? As per RFC, the only reasonable expectation for email delivery time is "Less than 4 days." Beyond that, no guarantees of delivery time except under the most limited of circumstances (you and your recipient use the same mail server). > It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion > is long over by the time my response to the original message appears... This is why it is absolutely important that everyone quotes properly every time. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting > Or is everyone seeing the same time delay? No. > by my calculations this delay corresponds to roughly what I would > expect if the list server was on Uranus.. You live in a reality separate from that of the rest of the world. :o) Email delays are unpredictable and variable. Don't sweat it so much. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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