I too am subscribed at two different services: AT&T and CompuServe. Except for
a two-hour "fit" AT&T had Thursday morning, I've been getting the same messages
in the same order and at pretty much the same time all along.
I don't know what it all means.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
> Responding to Charles' query and subsequent postings.
>
> I'm currently subscribed to the list on two different servers systems,
> icdsoft and gmail, both coming into mailboxes in Thuhderbird using POP
> acess.
>
> For a while the icdsoft link started working again, and deluging me with
> a big backlog of mail. Then sometime yesterday afternoon, is shut down
> ans stayed that way all evening.
>
> I was out busy all day and when I hooked up a few minutes ago, I
> received 42 messages, on gmail, all new to me and sent after I retired
> last night. From icdsoft, I received 92 messages, the 42 now ones and
> the 50 that I had already received the prior afternoon and evening on gmail.
>
> Given the sort of similar comments about some messages coming through
> promptly and others showing up much later, what's happening is some kind
> of delay, which likely has nothing to do with the list server itself.
>
> Scott Gomez wrote:
> > The ISP's mail server is most likely using a
> > global filter of some sort over which you have no control. If that list
> > incorporates black-list functions, then even though you've got a given
> > address whitelisted, you'll not see mail from that address until the
> > server allows it through.
> >
> Well, it certainly works like mail is being held, then released.
>
> Moose
>
>
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