Dan Freeman wrote: > it doesn't happen all of the time. I just cannot think of any excuse for > why > mail that I sent today getting to the same destination before mail that I > sent 2 or 3 days ago.
It may be that your ISP is rejecting email to your mailbox, which makes the list server sit on the email for a few days before it tries to send it again. SpamCop is another possible culprit or accomplice there. It'll label the email list a spam originator and that'll tell the mail server not to accept messages from it. The server keeps trying, and when it gets removed from the list by SpamCop (usually 24 hours, unless it's triggered into 48hrs or 72 hours by what it thinks is more spam from mylist.net), your email gets through. That's happened to me several times, but lately it has calmed down. I finally created another email address on another ISP, subscribed to the list through that one, and it gets the files instantly every time. If you copy yourself with every email, the properties can be used by your ISP to track the other one through and find where the holdup is. It's not the list though... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
