Re: OT - E-mail slowdown

It's happening to me, too, with mail to Yahoo! accounts, and with list 
servers I belong to. I know this sounds a little outside, but
I wonder if the FBI's implemented Carnivoire (or whatver version it is), or 
if major ISP's have installed filters to try to stamp out virus, or if 
servers are being mail-bombed....comcast's support mailbox is rejecting 
messages with "over quota" errors.

At 10:40 AM 9/11/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I thought possibly someone else out there might be having the same problem
>and could shed some light on it.  Hopefully, it's not too off-topic.
>
>I have a client who has an opt-in newsletter that he sends out about once a
>month.  He tried sending it Tuesday, but it didn't work (although, the
>script worked, no one got any newsletters).  He tried again Wed. morning and
>same result.  So, Wed. afternoon, I cleaned out his database (not all email
>addresses had confirmed their subscription) because I thought possibly it
>was timing out.  Maybe it was taking too long to look through the database
>and find those entries with a 'y' in the confirmation field.  He made a
>third attempt on Wed. afternoon at 3:15.
>
>That one worked, but it was some time before they were actually relayed.  He
>says:
>
>"They all are timestamped 3:15 but it clearly took upto a
>half-hour for the newsletters to be transmitted.  Clearing up the data base
>may have helped, I remember that when I did the newsletter from Outlook, the
>broadcast would be blocked if any one of the email address had an obvious
>problem ( like a comma instead of a period).  Or it could have been that you
>brought the number of email address below at threshold - like 500.
>At any rate I'd like to get a better handle on:  Why the newsletter was not
>broadcast the first two attempts, why it did go the third attempt, and why
>it took so long to transmit when finally did."
>
>This morning, I've recieved e-mail that was sent as long ago as yesterday
>morning... a couple were spam and a few were from a list I'm on at
>yahoogroups.  Again, these were labeled as being sent long ago, but I just
>got them.
>
>Is anyone else noticing this?  Or is it just me?  Also, for those of you who
>may run your own servers that include email, is there a priority among
>email... like, would bulk email take a backseat to other email (that doesn't
>make any sense)?
>
>Any light anyone can shed would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>Missy

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