[AJD] Delayed posts

[R Mull]

test 6:52 eastern

Thanks,
Robert Mull
Woodstock, Georgia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique John Deere mailing list'" 
<antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:21 AM
Subject: RE: [AJD] Delayed posts


> 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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