On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:51:42 mch wrote: > A much faster internet with faster mail servers at YahooGroups. > > Joe M. > > radiomog wrote: > > and what > > would it take to see that messages show up in order and on a timely > > basis?
The situation is pretty complicated. There are a lot of reasons why emails might not show up in 'order'. Really, your email program should be the thing that sorts and diplays emails. If you use Windws, Eudora and Thunderbird are far FAR safer to run than MS Outlook. Mail systems are frequently many machines working together, and if one of them gets bogged down for some reason its mail might be delayed getting out, even though other mails on the other machines in the system are fine. Mail systems today are *reeling* under the load of spam. It isn't possible to overstate this, and it has weird effects on everything mail related. Yes, there are times when I'd like to throttle Yahoo's email system but overall they do fairly well, and do a better job than most of weeding out spam. Lastly, don't forget that your ISP might be having problems as well, creating delays too. Your ISP has to deal with spam as well, and there are times when they aren't going to be dealing so well, either. Sigh. I remember simpler days when email systems were actually fun to administer... --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82
