[Zmagnette] List response time

Thu Oct 31 10:21:28 MDT 2013

Allen,

It only took 11 minutes to got to this side if the world!  16.19 GMT!

Kind regards,

David

On 31 October 2013 16:08, Allen Bachelder <bachldrs at comcast.net> wrote:

> Fletcher,
>
> Interesting that you got my 8:22 PM note at 8:26.  I didn't get it until
> 8:04 this morning!  But before I went to bed last night, I received
> Charlie's 9:42 PM note (at 10:03 PM), his 10:04 PM note (at 10:06 PM),
> Perkin's 12:42 PM note (at 10:08 PM - over nine hours later), and Kurt's
> 11:28 PM note at 12:08 AM.
>
> And your  8:52 PM reply to my note?  ' Showed up here at 10:08 this
> morning.
>
> Go figure!
>
> Allen
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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Fletcher Millmore wrote:
>
>  And just think - those are the people saying Lucas is bad!
> This 8:22 got here about 8:26, much better than your messages the other
> night which were 30-45 minutes.
> It is my understanding that the routing on the internet can be tortuous,
> with stuff getting delayed at any point along the way, so it could be
> either - or neither - end. Sequential messages do not necessarily travel
> the same route. I expect a fly by night local ISP could be a factor in
> this, as it must interface with a "real" internet doofus.
> I do get email from certain sources that always arrives much later than
> (claimed) sent  time - Rock Auto is one.
>
> Can you get send/receive info from the Digest version?
>
> FRM
>
> On 10/30/2013 8:22 PM, Allen Bachelder wrote:
>
> I'm seeing erratic response times: some later responses coming in hours
> before some earlier ones.  ' Could tolerate the delay much more easily if
> it were consistent.  I'm talking delays of much more than 30-45 minutes.
>  I'll write a reply about this time in the evening and it might not show up
> for 20-24 hours.  In the meantime, other replies are coming in hours
> earlier, to questions posed later.  Tonight I received two or three replies
> before I received the questions involved.   Somebody sent in a picture.  I
> have a reply from somebody else who reports seeing it, but I haven't
> received the picture post yet...
>
>  ' Don't think we're there yet...
>
>  Allen
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>          *Allen & Florrie Bachelder       =iii=<
> Spring Creek Home for Wayward MGs*
> *'57 ZB, '65 B, '69 C/GT, '73 B/GT*
> *North Street, MI 48049, USA*
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> *
>
>  On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>
>  Steven Trovato wrote:
>
> OK, so I responded to two different messages on this list.  I sent them
> three minutes apart.  I received one from the list about 10-15 minutes
> later.  The other didn't show up for 30-45 minutes.  Can anyone explain to
> me why this is?  What is causing such a long delay?  I'm sending this one
> at 7:10pm Eastern Time.  Now we'll see if everyone gets this at 7:11pm just
> to make a liar out of me.   :-)
>
>
> No, you are not imagining things, there can be some long delays in mail
> getting sent out from
> the server.  At the  moment the bottleneck seems to be mostly software
> related.  The program
> that translates between IP addresses and names is not responding as
> quickly as it should.  And
> with all the lists and all the addresses hostname lookups are a major
> factor in the Team.Net
> mailing list software.
>
> I'm looking into it.  Come the spring fund drive I may specifically
> request assistance with a new
> machine to run the nameserver, the current one is getting a bit long in
> the tooth.  Donate
> early, donate often ;-)
>
> I may be able to improve things a bit later this week, we shall see. At
> least the mail does
> eventually go through.  Using something like http://www.team.net/forumswould not have
> this issue, but a lot of folks prefer email.
>
> mjb.
>
>
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