On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Kate Brennan <[email protected]> wrote:
... > The common factor has to be my gmail account, surely? > The common factor may be your Gmail account, but that doesn't mean the cause was your Gmail account. You yourself were also a common factor, but it doesn't mean you are to blame. Guys, ladies, it means your message couldn't be delivered! At least, not right away. If some link on the Internet between here and there is jammed up or overloaded, or rebooting, stuff doesn't get through. It happens. I just received an email alert about weather conditions that were forecast for yesterday morning. That delivery didn't even use Gmail. This last week, lots of incoming emails are arriving hours after being sent. It would appear there is mucho congestion. It's a nasty world out there. With something like 98% of internet traffic being streaming videos, and growing constantly, there will be times when the 'net can't keep up with the demand. Google doesn't hire mailmen to personally deliver each message to the recipient's accounts; they send it out onto the 'net. There can be bottlenecks on the way from the sender to the recipient. When (say) Comcast is having problems with their servers, it wouldn't surprise me if more than one Comcast account is affected by it simultaneously. Regards, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
