posting speed

[Tony Alfrey]

Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> There are a few factors the effect the arrival/transmission time of email. 
> Your ISP may que mail until it reaches a certain amount then send it all at 
> once. 

Yes, that was my first thought.  I've sorta tested that out by sending 
mail back and forth to colleagues on various ISPs.  Things go pretty fast.

> The Internet is not a direct path to anywhere, therefore depending on 
> traffic/bottlenecks/outages/peering problems your mail may get rerouted or
> even help up inbetween your sending point and destination. The receiveing 
> system mayy have requested that the email be resent at a later time due to 
> system overload/failure. 
> 
> You may also be on the shitlist of some BOFH.

Oh fer crissake, another acronym.  Dare I guess??
What I'm getting at is that *this* list seems slow.  Not that anything I 
say is of earth-shattering significance, but I thought I saw a 
difference between this list and others.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"