[AT] New family member... thanks, Spencer

Spencer Yost Spencer.Yost at piedmontsystems.com
Sun Mar 7 20:24:20 PST 2004


I have been watching and reading all of this and I don't know what to say other than to say "Thanks for the overwhelming show of support".   To the few detractors, all I can say I have offered to run full timing tests for anyone that wants.   So far only two complaints of longer service have come across my email and both are from AOL users.   I also don't see anything out of the ordinary in the system logs.   Not to say that some folks may not see a delay from time to time but there there is no big huge glaring problem.

Three things for everyone to consider:

1 - YES, I do care for the people who claim I don't.
2 - The new messages come out with a Precedence header of "list".   ISPs can and sometimes do, specifically and purposely delay the delivery of these messages until their mail servers are less busy to deliver these messages.   The larger the ISP. the more likely you are do see differences in delivery based on "Precedence" header.  The technical information is after my signature.
3 - The _vast_ majority of people have seen service improve or at least stay consistent with the old list.

I hope this helps,


Spencer

14.4 Precedence

The precedence of a mail message determines its position among other messages in the queue when the queue is processed. Precedence, as a header line, also defines whether or not a bounced message should be returned to the sender. 

There are only five possibilities for name that are legal: 

special-delivery This mail message needs to be processed before any others. This precedence is effective only when the message is being delivered from the queue. 

first-class Unless otherwise declared with a Precedence: header, the message is first-class by default. 

list The message originated as part of a mailing list. It should be deferred until other more important mail has been processed from the queue. 

bulk The message is a broadcast, like a mailing list but less important. If the message can't be delivered, the message body is discarded from the bounced mail. 

junk Absolutely worthless mail. Test messages and mail from some programs fall into this category. Like bulk, the message body is discarded from the bounced mail.





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