[AT] message lag( fixing my previous post)

[Larry D. Goss]

It's worse than that, Ron.  I never received Farmer's original message
that's attached to yours, and the lag time has been better than 12 hours
for many of the messages on ATIS for several days now.  Other lists are
working fine, and I'm not really complaining because I realize that the
Internet routes messages in its own mysterious way.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Ronald L.
Cook
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:43 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] message lag( fixing my previous post)

Aw, cripes.  I can't even add or subtract anymore.  Farmer's message 
took an hour and 12 minutes to get to my computer.  Still not all that 
bad.  Better than the 4 to 8 hr lag I have been experiencing.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

robinson at svs.net wrote:

> On 19 Jan 2005 at 16:20, Ronald L. Cook wrote:
> 
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	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).  :-)
> 
> Going out at 10:22 Indiana time.

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