[Cialug] Question about mail list

[David Champion]

Todd Walton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sorry to say it, but it could be Yahoo.  I've had problems with Yahoo
>> delaying e-mails for hours or even days or even losing them entirely.  I
>> have a Yahoo account, but I much prefer my GMail account.  If you don't have
>> one and would like one, e-mail me off-list and I'll send you an invite (I
>> think you still need to be invited).
>>     
>
> Nope.  One can sign up on one's own these days.
>
> Also, I second the Yahoo diagnosis, based on personal experience.
>
> -todd
>   

If you watch the outgoing mailq on a mail server, you may see that 
messages going to yahoo or aol will randomly sit in your queue for days 
before going out. At one point you could pretty much count on aol emails 
to take longer to get accepted by them than if you sent a letter by 
snail mail.

-dc