[AJD] Delayed posts

[Dean VP]

For those of you who think that delayed posts are the norm and have to be
lived with, I suggest you go to www.ytmag.com and post a message. Your
message will be on the board before you can check to see if it has arrived. 

I have been on ATIS for almost 6 years now but the situation is getting to
the point that it is untenable. It is very hard to understand the context of
a question when answers sometimes arrive before the question does. Nor does
one want to look foolish in answering a question when there have been
several identical answers given before any of them show up for review. 

I have been helped immensely in the past by those who have contributed so
mightily to this list but over time I see them slowly disappearing. I have
tried to help those I can when possible and hopefully have helped as much as
I have been helped. I have met some wonderful people in person who I never
would have met had it not been for this list. But....the ATIS list is
nothing more than a tool. If the tool isn't functional any more, a new tool
is needed. 

I must admit I get impatient when things are not going right. And I have had
to bite my tongue many times over the last few weeks. So I would like to
pass along an old saying my father used to say:

"If every time you walk through that door you get hit over the head, maybe a
wise thing to do would be to not walk through that door any more."

Life is too short to have to deal with things that irritate us. I've had
some very good interchanges with several members of this list via private
email. Maybe this is one of the potential solutions. And w/o all the delays
in the messages. 

Sometimes solutions occur when there isn't anyone around to complain about
it anymore.  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


www.deerelegacy.com

http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm



-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Ronald L. Cook
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:00 PM
To: Antique John Deere mailing list
Subject: Re: [AJD] Delayed posts

I just received it at almost 5 PM Central time.  Interesting, isn't it? 
  I'm not complaining.  I did receive it and at least this isn't a Yahoo 
list.  They are a whole nuther bunch of problems.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Christopher Lynn wrote:

> What Guy wrote pretty much summed up the problem I believe.  Over my 
> last 11 years of Internet use, email in general has gotten slower due to 
> the increase in filtering, and to a degree, the increase in traffic.  It 
> is not just an ATIS issue, but one that is created with the ISP's as 
> well.  Combine the ATIS filtering with the incoming or outgoing 
> filtering systems of each ATIS subscriber (of which most are likely 
> different), and there is going to be a definite lag time. Sending email 
> via an intranet is no longer instantaneous either.
> 
> Back in 1995, my messages would sometimes come right back to me after I 
> sent them to the main ATIS list.  Other times, responses would come back 
> before I got my initial post.  This is the first message I sent to this 
> list in a long time, so I'll see how long it takes to show up.
> 
> Just my $.02
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> Guy Fay wrote:
> 
>> I think it's the general Internet problem of mail getting slower, not 
>> just these lists. I do see slower return times on the main ATIS lists 
>> than the specific by makes. I also notice that the spam filter I get 
>> through my provider seems to have an effect as well- when it lets more 
>> spam through, it's faster, but the more it catches, it slows up the 
>> rest of the mail.
>> Guy Fay
>>
>> Dee Schuyler wrote:
>>
>>> Well I spoke offline with Dean this morning and he had pretty much 
>>> the same thing to add.
>>> I guess I will continue to read the mail for a while but I am about 
>>> burned out on posting.
>>> Guess I will see what else is active?
>>> Thanks for your reply  Duane
>>> Dee
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Larson" <jdlarson at comcast.net>
>>> To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
>>> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:37 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AJD] Delayed posts
>>>
>>>> Dee,
>>>> I have also raised this issue (perhaps too many times) but nothing 
>>>> has been
>>>> done.  Exactly for your reasons I watch but don't participate much 
>>>> anymore
>>>> on this list.  Too frustrating.  Spencer (or someone) posted some 
>>>> transfer
>>>> times recently but they sure don't seem to apply to most things I 
>>>> respond
>>>> to.  If I knew that the problem was on my end I could do something 
>>>> about it,
>>>> but I don't know where it is.  The average daily traffic on this 
>>>> list seems
>>>> to have decreased in the last 4-5 years as this delay problem has 
>>>> gotten
>>>> worse - you are probably right, folks have transferred to the other JD
>>>> discussion forums.
>>>> Duane Larson
> 
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