Re: [ST] Delayed emails?

[Matt Knowles <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Matthew Heyer wrote:

> so what gives?  I've noticed a few of my emails take hours, even a day 
> to get posted - others come through fine.  I've also noticed this with 
> other people's emails - I'll get "new" messages that are dated long 
> ago, and in general get a fair number of emails out of order.
>

Email doesn't go directly from sender to receiver, it goes through any 
number of servers along the way. Each server stores the message and 
relays it when it gets the chance. If any one of those servers is 
backlogged or goes down for some reason, it may get hung up for awhile. 
Two emails sent seconds apart could take two different paths across the 
Internet, and depending on the paths they take could arrive in a 
different order than what they were sent in.

Matt Knowles - Ferndale, CA - 
http://www.knowlesville.com/matt/motorcycles
  '99 Sprint ST - for going fast and far (2CZUSA)
  '01 KLR650 - for exploring the North Coast backroads
  '97 KLX300 & '01 Lakota - for playing in the dirt
  '79 KZ400 - just because it was the first vehicle I ever owned

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