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Re: Email delays??

To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Email delays??
From: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:13:40 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 MHKitchen@aol.com wrote:

> There's something funny going on with my emails at the moment, and I don't
> know if its the Vintage Race List BBS, or AOL (my ISP), but I receive a
> number of the list emails twice, and I see emails that I sent to the list
> show up days later.  I'm also experiencing late emails from the internet
> (based on people telling me they sent me an email, and then it doesn't show
> up for 24 hours or even days).
> 
> Is anyone else having this same problem??  especially other AOL users??
 
Something funny is going on, all right, but it's going on at AOL.  I'm the
Sys Admin here, and I've been seeing hundreds of mail delivery error
reports resulting from attempts to deliver my users' mail to AOL.  Other
local ISPs are experiencing the same thing.

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Chip Old                      1948 M.G. TC  TC6710  NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland            1962 Triumph TR4  CT3154LO (daily driver)
fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
 
If cars had evolved as fast as computers have, by now they'd cost a
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