On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > ... sometimes I post something on this list which takes an hour or > more to come across. Usually it just takes minutes.
That can happen for many reasons. For example, if the first delivery attempt fails (network problem, machine too busy, what ever reason), the sending MTA may well wait an hour or more before trying again. Some mail servers are starting to use greylisting, which intentionally delays mails that have sender-recipient pairs they have not seen before - this fouls a lot of spamming programs (I do that at my place of work). Email was never intended to be a real-time protocol, so one has to accept the occasional delay... - Heikki -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
