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Re: [ST] Delayed emails?



Besides, you have to give the NSA time to read it!
Sent at 11:53 AM
See how long this takes to get to you.
AL


Matt Knowles wrote:
> 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 - 
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