[AT] No news these days - long

[Mike Sloane]

Sorry, Spencer, I didn't mean to blame your system. I have heard that 
some ISP's, rather than sending out a constant stream of messages, will 
batch them for whatever reason, and send them out all at once. Since 
Cecil is using a cable access, that might suggest that some of them 
don't have the robust "back end" that regular ISP's have invested in. 
Sometimes the cause can be more customers taking advantage of the access 
than the provider planned for (either financially or technically).

It would be somewhat interesting to see how my ISP (Verizon On Line) is 
doing, compared to some of the others...

Mike

Spencer Yost wrote:

>>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:
> 

> 
> 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
> 

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