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From:Andrew Crowe
Date:2 Jun 2001 at 16:29:21
Subject:Re: A mystery

Hi Everybody,

> If you post a mail to a list, sometimes it comes back to you
> instantly and at other times there is a delay of several minutes or
> even hours.
>
> Question. Where is the data during that interval? It can't just
> vanish - it has to be stored somewhere.

There are 3 places the email could be held up:

1. Your outgoing mail server. When you send an email it is first
copied to your ISP who then copy it to its destination. If your ISP
or the destination server is busy, then it will be put in a queue
until its free, thus it's delayed by a bit.

2. On the Yahoogroups server. Once the email ends up in the yahoo
server, it has to be processed and then sent on to everyone on the
list, if yahoo groups is busy that could take some time

3. Your mail server. Once yahoogroups sends the emails out, it has to
get back to your mail server. If your mail server is busy then it
will be put in a queue, and delayed.

Y'see, the data doesn't just vanish, it's just stored on external
servers until there's a free slot to send it out

See ya :)



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