From: Bill Garland <bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 May 94 19:34:13 PDT
To: tcmay@netcom.com
Subject: RE: Is Mail being delayed?
Message-ID: <0097F20E.5CFDA620.32@Leif.ucs.mun.ca>
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From Tim May :

>C'punks,

>Once again I'm seeing day-long delays in getting mail, and I don't
>know if the problem is at the toad site or at Netcom's end (or at a
>relay link in between). Hence this message.
...
>If you are gettting mail out of order (replies from others before the
>original appears) or delayed by more than several hours, drop me a
>note if you would and I will summarize what I learn.

This happens to me all the time. I quite often see duplicate postings,
too, although the multiple-posting copies of the same message eg
the Chaum ecash announcement was a different problem, possibly 
caused by the same delay problem - re-posters haven't yet seen the
first copy.

>I'm especially interested to hear from Netcom sites.

Can't help you there, except provide evidence that it is not a
local netcom problem. Not to say netcom doesn't have local problems...

I am at the end of the world here, at least the corner of North
America. Think of me as your East Coast Sentinel - I can see Signal
Hill from here if I go outside, and I can see Cape Spear from there.
On Signal Hill there actually is one of those posts with arrows 
pointing to New York, London, Moscow, etc, with all the mileage.
(Maybe I should invent East Coast Sentinal as a pseudonym.) There
are two lines into here for Internet traffic, and perhaps soon to
be others, but except for that, we are the end of the line. Might
make traffic analysis a problem someday.

>--Tim May

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