[AJD] Delay in messages

[Spencer Yost]

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On 1/30/2006 at 10:16 AM Dean VP wrote:
>The delay in messages on ATIS is getting to the point it is intolerable. 
>

It isn't ATIS.  All email providers are free to handle a message with a
Precedence header value of "list" any way they choose.  AOL and other
choose to defer messages whenever they are busy, like the value is "bulk".
Others handle just like "Normal" precedence mail.   Look at the header of
the messages and you'll see the difference in the Precedence value between
list message and emails from your friends.  By the way, the lack of a
Precedence header implies "Normal".

By the way, some list operators improperly label their mail "Normal" so
this doesn't happen.  Assigning a precedence value incorrectly to speed
processing is poor form and smacks of childishness and I certainly don't do
it and won't do it. 

Specifically Dean, your email provider is deferring messages.  Here is the
queue file entry:

k0V32b7J014241     1705 Mon Jan 30 22:02
<at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
                 (Deferred)
    
                                         <deanvp at att.net>
    
                                         <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
    

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