From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 02/21/03-11:20:24 AM Z
Me too, Katherine. I have missed many of these posts, so it's not just in
your neck of the woods.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Missing email messages
> Thanks for responses, but unless I'm not understanding the replies
> properly, I don't think they explain my problem. My ISP posts a bulletin
> if there's a problem with mail slowing down, but when the problem is
> resolved the backed up mail come in quickly, and it comes in reasonably
> consecutive order. In other words, if the mail's backed up, I don't get
> today's mail before yesterday's, because the new mail goes into the
> queue after the old mail. But my ISP has not said there's been a
> problem with mail in the last few days, and I seem to be getting my mail
> in something like real time this morning (the alt-photo messages I've
> received this morning correspond exactly with the list on the live
> mirror) but the posts that I didn't get in the meantime just haven't
> ever showed up.
> kt
>
> Eric Maquiling wrote:
> >
> > On 02/21 08:26, Nick Makris wrote:
> >
> > > has been discussed on this list at least once or twice, this is also
the
> > > very reason why messages come in out of order.
> >
> > I'm an email server administrator and the above statement, from MCN is
> > confusing. It really depends on where people are and where they are
> > sending email from.
> >
> > >
> > > When the mail server is processing a normal amount of mail, it does so
in
> > > real time, so as a message is received it is forwarded to the proper
bucket.
> >
> > This is true but what it normal? Yahoo processes thousands and
> > thousands of email per minute.
> > >
> > > When loads get higher than normal, the messages are placed in a queue
for
> > > processing later.
> >
> > Messages are placed in queue if they cannot be sent. I.E., the
> > recieving end is down, wrong email address, etc, etc. Usually, it
> > stays in queue for 7 days and then discarded.
> >
> > >
> > > When loads get too high, messages can be/are/have been rejected.
> >
> > This is not true. If you have an ISP that tells you that they are
> > rejecting email or deleting email because of their "load", change ISP
> > immediately.
> >
> > >
> > > queue, those messages are processed FIFO (for you non-techies, "that's
first
> > > in first out").
> >
> > Ahh, okay, now I see what you mean in the first line. Just because
> > person A from America sends email at the same exact time (GMT time) as
> > a person in New Zealand, does *NOT* mean that person in America will
> > be "first" in line if they send messages to that email server.
> >
> > --
> > Eric
>
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