FYI, I received your post at 2:48PM PST. The post in question was one that
Paul responded to with a subject of "DSP"
I read Paul's response, but never knew the question.
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alt-mode [mailto:alt_mode@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:44 AM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] DSP (post delays)
>
>
> Ken/Tony,
>
> Are you seeing the posts actually lost or just severely delayed?
> I noticed the
> delay but I haven't seen anything lost. Egroups had some
> problems where I finally
> got some posts over a week late but they did come through!
>
> I don't write mailer software for a living (so you can't shoot
> me) but my guess is
> that yahoogroups, as it is called now, is a victim of its own
> success. They just
> can't handle the volume of posts made on all the lists. I think
> this is compounded
> by the redelivery mechanism that their mailers use. It seems to
> defer delivery very
> quickly and the deferred queue is not serviced very often. At
> least, that is what
> it looks like from my observations.
>
> I suppose you could complain to the yahoogroups sysadmins...
>
> Eric
>
>
> --- elhardt@... wrote:
> > tony@... writes:
> >
> > >>Reason: I see Paul and others responding to things that are
> seemingly hours
> > old, yet I still haven't gotten them. How do some people get
> email on this
> > list 10 hours ago, and I still haven't seen them, yet my mail
> with most of
> > the world is practically instantaneous?
> > I was on the phone this morning with a guy in Canada, and
> while we were on
> > the phone, I emailed him a picture and within 10 seconds, he
> was viewing it!
> > Yet on this group I see Paul responding to someone 11 o'clock
> this morning,
> > yet I still haven't seen the original post to which Paul replied.
> > Confused,<<
> >
> > I have the same problems but at different times on different
> lists. For a
> > few days many of my posts to this list would never show up (at
> least back to
> > me). Other times they were severly delayed. Then lately I
> haven't had any
> > problems here, but now on Analog Heaven I'm not seeing my posts
> that went out
> > ever a day ago. I am getting so fed up with this crap. Apparently the
> > morons who write the software to shuffle mail around the
> internet think it is
> > exceptable to lose a certain percentage of it. I don't know
> who's at fault
> > so I can't fire off an angry and hateful letter to the
> bastards. Computers,
> > I hate them.
> >
> > -Elhardt
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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