Rick, My experiences have not been as predictable as yours have been in general. For example, my ISP sends maile through a spam filtering service and there are multiple servers. Mail that I get in a particular period of time has been split up and sent through separate servers and then it gets sent to me after that. The time it takes for mail to get to me is going to vary based upon the load on the particular SPAM filtering server it went through. I looked at my message headers and actually reported long delays on a SPAM server to my ISP. So that is one variable.
MailMan, the list server used, can also cause delays. I cannot speak to how the Window-Eyes list is configured, but in other situations I know of, Mailman generates a separate message to each user who is subscribed to a list. If you have a lot of list traffic and a lot of members, this can add up to thousands of emails per day fairly easily. This can cause maile to trickle out to some degree as well. At least one of your messages that you said had been delayed for a long time I remember seeing more or less in the correct context. At the very least, the delays you are seeing may not be seen by everyone equally. If you are really bothered by this, you might want to look through your message headers to see if you can determine for certain where the delay is. You could find, as I did, that it was within my ISP's system. It could also be that there is still some fine tuning needed on the new list. The answer may not be as obvious as you feel it is, though. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:17:28 -0400, Rick Thomas via Talk wrote: >Sometimes messages are posted in a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, a >few hours or recently a couple of days so they get posted out of thread >sequence. >What is causing this, it doesn't happen on any other lists I am on. >Usually messages are posted in a few seconds on a few other lists I am on >and are always posted, seemingly anyway, in the correct creation sequence >within thread. >Is there a way to at least ensure messages are posted in the correct >creation datetime sequence? >Rick USA >_______________________________________________ >Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >For membership options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson% 40visi.com. >For subscription options, visit >http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >List archives can be found at >http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
