[AJD] Delayed posts

[Ronald L. Cook]

Chris,
	I just got this.  1:00 PM Central.  They are getting faster!!

Ron


Christopher Lynn wrote:

> Received at 5:38PM EST here, and sent out at 10:49am EST.  Not good.
> 
> All of the posts I received yesterday came in the afternoon, yet were 
> time stamped with morning times.
> 
> At least that message arrived.  My ISP's outgoing spam filter has a 
> tendency to filter outgoing email that is not spam, which renders this 
> convenience a big inconvenience.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> Chris
> 
>> 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