On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:48 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
well, yes in general; specifics are left for header research.
email is not (and given the random universe of possible senders, and
permissible load management and retries, probably cannot be)
designed to serialize delivery; gmail adds an unknown filtering
process with its own 'special sauce', and may well be set to delay
and to 'build reputation' of what it decides is a related corpus of
spam/ham candidates [greylisting and RBL 4xx temporary rejects are
other approaches]
Amusingly, I use Google for my domain now, and all the messages came
from the same place (the list manager on sparkplug.kernel-panic.org).
People should really learn to consider email a "best effort" system
with a reasonable assurance that the mail _should_ eventually get
delivered.
Got to run now, I have faculty complaining that they haven't received
an email that was sent from another university five minutes ago...
Gregory
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