posting speed

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:02:41 -0700
Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Are you seriously not knowing who the BOFH is. You need to get online more. :)
http://members.iinet.com.au/~bofh/index.html

Ronnie