28/01/04 John Verity: >I wonder if anyone here can help me understand why some mails sent to me >take hours, sometimes even a day or more, to arrive. If nothing else, can >anyone here tell me they see the same thing sometimes? Too often? >Increasingly so? These kinds of delays seem to be happening to me more >often than usual, lately.
I believe most mail servers I relate to started lagging some monthes ago. It could be due to increased traffic (mostly spam, M$-imposed default HTML alternatives in mail, viruses, which all amounts to M$ programs somewhere BTW), or new anti-spam steps on the servers. But it may be worse than that : I just sent myself something from my father's location that took several hours to deliver, whereas friends using his ISP/mail servers don't. The only difference between them being that he's a political activist makes me wonder if that's a coincidence, particularly in the current panic state of governments. Our intelligence here have always managed to know everything about any slightly active militant (sheeps never realize that/refuse to hear about it/find it normal, but in the rare occasions where militants get arrested/interrogated above police level, they're amazed at their knowledge). I once got drunk with a retired colonel who happened to be socially committed and laughed that he couldn't go on a picnic in the countryside without being followed; I doubt they would limit themselves to pre-Internet methods. Hijacking messages instead of just copying them off the relays seems stupid, but it could also be used to block things, like a sibylline message that I remember couldn't reach lebanese colleagues while more understandable ones did. Since I don't want to cause more paranoia in this world, I must add that my ISP and my father's hate each other and try to make the other look bad, which caused his to limit the bandwidth used by its users accessing my ISP's user pages (his ISP targets bozo users so mine has so much more relevant web pages that peering access at the ISPs level is almost one-way). ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
