[plug] Delayed mails

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, wayne wrote:

> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:22:54 +0800
> From: wayne <hatari at iinet.net.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Delayed mails
> Resent-Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2002 17:23:19 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> Hello, Colin!
> 
> Yes; this is the issue of undelivered and lost eMails concerning SLPWA that
> I raised at the SLPWA meeting on Sunday, that you already commented on.
> Damn useless really - a bit like "pony express" mail, isn't it!
> 
> Regards,
> wayne.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Muller" <colin at twobluedots.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:17 PM
> Subject: [plug] Delayed mails
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:05:30PM +0800, wayne wrote:
> > > On Sunday 29 June 2002, 12:37am Wayne wrote:
> > > <original message included below>
> > >
> > > PLEASE NOTE the date/time on the original eMail included below.  It is
> > > delayed by one and a half days.  (I think someone's eMail queue is
> filling
> > > up!)
> >
> > This must be iiNet's doing. Earlier today I had a private mail from
> > someone else on iiNet, which the headers showed had been accepted by
> > iiNet's mail server at 9.15 last Thursday ... and delivered to mine
> > around lunch time today. I've seen a few delays of hours or more from
> > iiNet addresses (and no others) the last week or two. Perhaps there's
> > an email elves' strike on. No, scrub that; it smells bad, so it must
> > be an ill-intentioned, ill-fated conspiracy :-)
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >

Funny, that.

I received a message a short while ago, that took two and a half days to
get from an iinet mail server to my ISP, from the full header, so I
lodged a query with my ISP, to find where the delay occurred; in being
sent by iinet, or being picked up by my ISP. It appears to be the former.

It must be that the weather is making the ants that carry the messages
along the wires, a bit slow, or maybe the ants stopped work to go to the
end of financial year sales.
:)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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