Should I consider this a clue? My original post hasn't made it back to my
in-box, but your reply has, of course. Things are just not orderly somehow,
and despite my habitual state of disorganization, I find this disconcerting!
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andrew Dacey <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On 10/26/05, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My posts are either (1) not making it through; (2) are appearing long after
> they are sent, or (3) are being ignored. I see John H. has responded to a
> post
> about batteries that hasn't even come to me yet, while my instant response to
> his query, suggesting the same supplier, apparently has suffered one of the
> three aforementioned fates.
>
> I received your post about the batteries right away. Some of that
> might be explained by how people read the list; if they start with the
> oldest messages and reply as they go then they might not see your
> reply before sending their own. gmail does a decent job of sorting
> things into threads (they call them conversations), so I usually see
> all the messages on one topic at once.
>
> Other possibility would be if someone's mail program checks for mail
> something like every 10mins or even less frequently than that. John's
> message could have popped in on one check before you had sent your
> message (or before it arrived on their end).
>
> > I posted a response yesterday to Bill Barber's painting with light problem,
> posing the solution of shining light through the viewfinder rather than
> taking
> the back off the camera, etc. I sent it off at 10:30 a.m. my time, but it
> didn't come back to me via the list until after noon. And then, hours later,
> two or three folks posted the same solution I had suggested, meaning they
> either
> hadn't received my post, had ignored it, or were blatantly and shamelessly
> stealing my thunder.
>
> I'll confess to ignoring your message :-). Actually, I had only
> skimmed it but missed your suggestion about shining light through the
> viewfinder and then replied to the next message suggesting that.
>
> Slowdowns with mail can happen. The process here will be something
> like, message is sent to your ISP's outgoing mail server (SMTP
> server), it's placed into a queue for sending. Then it gets sent to
> the SMTP server for the list and gets put in a queue to be delivered.
> Then it's delivered to the list server. The list server the queues it
> to be sent back out. It goes back to the list ISP's SMTP server and
> gets queued to be sent out then comes back to your ISP's server and
> gets queued for delivery and then gets delivered back to you. That's a
> lot of queues to go through. At any point during that there could be
> slowdowns (such as somebody on the service having a mass mailer virus
> that's sending out thousands of messages). Not to mention that if
> there are any problems with reaching the other server at any point
> then it will hold onto the message and try again later.
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