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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Sending email from CompuServe to the Internet
Message-ID: <10738@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Aug 89 22:54:13 GMT
References: <8908130008KP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <89Aug13.034413edt.18549@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
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In article <89Aug13.034413edt.18549@me.utoronto.ca> yap@me.utoronto.ca
(Davin Yap) writes:
>In article <8908130008KP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes:
>>  - The amount of time it takes to deliver an Internet message varies
>>  from a half hour to two days.  This is a function of Internet and
>>  CompuServe is not responsibe for this time frame.
>
>	Nope.  This just ain't true.  Mail between Internet sites takes
>	place practically immediately.  Most mail gets delivered in a
>	matter of minutes, regardless of how far apart the sites are
>	physically.

I maintain seven mailing lists at SIMTEL20.  Delays of several days are
OFTEN seen on Internet mail due to hosts or gateways being down.  I have
several messages in the queue right now that have been waiting 4 days
for the distant host to come back on line.

Example:  I just received a message which took two days to reach
SIMTEL20 from BITNET, apparently because CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (the gateway)
was down for the whole weekend.

Many Unix hosts on the Internet will refuse SMTP (mail) connections if
the load average is too high.  This may delay delivery up to 6 or 8
hours, depending upon host load and how often the mailer retries.

Keith
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Keith Petersen
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