[X4U] What is the delay filter on this list

Dave Bonhoff 69abel at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 06:43:11 PDT 2009


I received this message on July 10 at 08:02 EDT, and am replying at  
09:42 EDT. Talk to you in a couple weeks!

Dave

On 29-Jun-09, at 16:08, John Engberg wrote:

>
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Jim Colgate wrote:
>
>> I have noticed recently that the difference between the date sent  
>> and the date received has grown to over 15 days. I do check this  
>> pop account every day so that the date received should be at most  
>> 24 hours after sent if there are no delays in the line, however  
>> almost every message if receive has a date sent time-stamp of about  
>> 15 days ago.
>>
>> I just looked at the raw source for the latest message I received  
>> and it shows that it was originally received by the listserv on 30  
>> May, but was not passed on until today, 17 June.
>>
>> I guess I will have to wait 2 weeks for any answers to this, but I  
>> am very curious about the delays. (I posted a fairly urgent  
>> question about the Mail app an hour ago. It has not shown up in my  
>> inbox yet, so I guess it will be a couple weeks before anybody  
>> reads it and then another couple weeks before I get any answers.)
>>
>> This is worse than the pony express -- at least they could deliver  
>> a letter coast to coast in a week. :-)
>>
>>  Jim
>
> That does seem strange, Jim, but in fact as you can see is dated 17  
> june. This message is being sent on 29 June at approximately 1606 EDT.
>
> John Engberg



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