[AT] No news these days - long

[Spencer Yost]

>Strange - it says your message was sent at 7:36 AM but I only just 
>received it at 1:50 PM. I guess we still have delays on the ATIS system. 
>I sent you several messages since then.
>

I really don't mind folks blaming various ISPs' problems on ATIS and I
actually do understand that its human nature to do so (blame the easiest
target), but I feel like I have defend ATIS's good name from time to time.
Here is the received trail from Cecil's message.   It took Cecil's ISP
_5_HOURS_ to send it to my SPAM service's server.   From that point in time
it took exactly 1 minute to hit my mailbox:

Return-Path: <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Received: from heavyiron.atis.net (heavyiron.atis.net [127.0.0.1])	by
heavyiron.atis.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8PGb33M029981;	Sat, 25
Sep 2004 12:37:05 -0400
Received: from box012.sjc.mx.mail-abuse.org (box012.sjc.mx.mail-abuse.org
[168.61.6.12])	by heavyiron.atis.net (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id
i8PGb1wg029975	for <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>; Sat, 25 Sep 2004
12:37:02 -0400
Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com
[24.24.2.57])	by box012.sjc.mx.mail-abuse.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP
id	i8PGaXYI000244 for <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>;	Sat, 25 Sep 2004
09:36:33 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from hvc.rr.com (24-161-46-101.hvc.rr.com [24.161.46.101])	by
ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id	i8PBZwv3018616 for
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>;	Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:36:00 -0400 (EDT)

The VAST majority of the delays (all but on one two) I have tracked and
logged doing timing tests for folks have been ISP issues.   The best I can
tell is all ISPs, some more often than others, mail servers are overloaded
and overworked doing virus and SPAM scanning and just get backed up.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net