[ExI] Long Posting Delays

[F. C. Moulton]

There is always the "Fun" activity of digging through the email headers 
and checking for delays.  For example an ISP might be doing a check for 
Spma   or malware before sending the message on to the next hop in its 
journey.  Of course there are two parts to the path; one part which goes 
from the sender to the extropy mail server and the second part which is 
from the extropy mail server to the recipient.  The second part can be 
checked by a recipient.  So if a person sends a message to the list then 
they can check the headers and determine if the delay was about the same 
on both parts of the trip or if one had a greater delay than the other 
or the third possibility which is that if was delayed while on the 
extropy mail server itself if the server was really busy. This last is 
not often the case but I have seen it happen.  For example on a postfix 
server check the directories for deferred emails and you can quickly see 
if the messages are clearing out nicely or if they are piling up.

Fred

On 10/29/2015 05:28 PM, spike wrote:
> *From:*extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Robin D Hanson
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 29, 2015 1:56 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* [ExI] Long Posting Delays
>
> It seems to typically take over a day between when I send an email to
> this mailing list and when it appears back to me. I have seen this
> happen many times. I see other people responding to each other more
> quickly, so I have to figure not everyone is suffering these long
> delays. Any idea what could be going wrong?
>
> I have heard of this too.  My own response times vary all over the
> place, usually not more than a few hours however.
>
> This week I have gotten a pile of notices that various accounts have
> been bouncing messages from ExI sent to them.  Once in a while, more
> often than once a month, I get a couple dozen of these, so I go through
> and reset all the bounce flags.  Did it today.
>
> spike
>
>
>
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F. C. Moulton
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