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

[steve smith]

Spencer
Thank you for the great service. I am a lurker and don't participate much 
but really enjoy the list.
Thank You again
Smitty



At 11:24 PM 3/7/04 -0500, you wrote:
>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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