[AJD] Delayed posts

[Spencer Yost]

Geez, you are comparing TWO DIFFERENT technologies.  Compare apples to
apples before run your mouth.   My bulletin board posts instantly too.


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

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On 1/20/2005 at 1:21 AM Dean VP wrote:

>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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