[AT] message lag( fixing my previous post)

[Ronald L. Cook]

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:
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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.
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>>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.