[AT] message lag

[Ronald L. Cook]

Okay, it can run properly.  I just received this at 10:34 AM  Central 
time.  Are we not 1 hour apart, Farmer?  If that is the case, this 
showed up on my computer 12 minutes after you sent it.  And, my setup 
checks for emails on the server at my ISP every 10 minutes.  That is how 
it used to be.  I like that.  Of course I also thank Spencer for making 
this list available.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

robinson at svs.net wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2005 at 16:20, Ronald L. Cook wrote:
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>>Very bad here today.  I responded to a message this morning about noon 
>>Central time.  Haven't seen it yet.  As a matter of fact the latest one 
>>I have received is stamped 9:29.  It is now 4:20 PM here.
>>
>>Ron Cook
>>Salix, IA
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> 	There is a lot more going on here than "normal" web lag. I can't claim to 
> understand it but the common explanations given by various members about it 
> being normal for list mail just don't cut it. I own a dozen list and I am on a 
> whole herd more and none have these kinds of lag. My own list are all on Yahoo 
> Groups and much of the time if I hit send on a message by the time the regular 
> screen is back up on my email client I can hit the check mail button and my 
> message is back to me already. When there is a delay it is rarely more than 10 
> minutes. Most of the time we on those list can almost carry on an un-
> interrupted conversation back and forth even with overseas members. A lot of 
> the genealogy list I am on are on Rootsweb.com and message time is pretty much 
> always in a few minutes, not hours. The last several messages I have sent here 
> are in hours and one came back the next day. 
> 	I cannot begin to say if it is something in the nature of Spencers servers or 
> how in some way his list mail is identified or if it might somehow be the first 
> "station" (for lack of a better word) that mail coming to or leaving his server 
> hits or what the situation is. Maybe they snag on Clingman's Dome (in the 
> Smokies). Maybe it all has to pass through the CIA...   ;-)    I do know that 
> he works hard to provide the best service he can so I tend to place blame on 
> something between his servers and my dialup connection. Not being able to 
> identify it I usually just call it #$%&  %&$#  #&%$ ! ! !     ;-)
> 	While it "is" an annoyance at times it is certainly something I can tolerate 
> in order to be on the list. Few of my messages are time critical. Even with 
> those warts I am just glad that the list is here and do try to thank Spencer 
> from time to time for it...  (Thanks Spencer).  :-)
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> Going out at 10:22 Indiana time.