[wellylug] delivery delays (was: Advertising on list

[Cliff Pratt]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jethro Carr wrote:
> 
>> I would assume that it's his company mail server sticking it on at the
>> end of all outgoing mail...
> 
> 
> In case anyone wonders why we continually get multiple answers, often 
> saying the same thing, especially from me, it seems to be because 
> there's a significant delay between someone else posting, I my reception 
> of said post. E.g. although Jethro wrote this around 1730, I didn't get 
> it until at least after 2033, because I wouldn't have bothered replying 
> if I'd seen this first.
> 
> So, why the delay? It seems to be quite inconsistent. Is each posting
> manually moderated perhaps?
> 
Did you look at the headers on Jethro's posts? I just looked 
at the headers on your post and it appears that you sent it 
off at 8:16am this morning, and it got here at 8:55. Looking 
further at my headers, it sat in one of my ISP's servers for 
30 minutes which is reasonable since I pick up my email only 
every hour. It took about 6 minutes to travel from one of 
Paradise's server to another before exiting Paradise on its 
way out from you to synagogue.naos.co.nz where it spent only 
seconds before travelling on.

In short, it is nothing to do with the list. The delays are 
elsewhere.

Cheers,

Cliff