[AJD] Delayed posts

[Frank]

ok then .....
compare what it is today ti what it was years ago?

no opinion yet......


Frank
gremaux at tein.net
Central Montana
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/deeregp/index.html
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
To: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [AJD] Delayed posts


> 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
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> 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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