[wellylug] delivery delays (was: Advertising on list

[Chris Hodgetts]

run your own SMTP server.....?? - use encryption and auth on it, then 
you can post from anywhere :) -- it's what I do

then you can ensure that it will be delivered on time and not put up 
with the delays your ISP may give you.

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 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
> 
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