Date   : Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:54:23 -0000
From   : "Austin" <dawnandoz@...>
Subject: Re: Problems with the list.

[+SNIP]

> > I experience some problems and anomalies with the list.
> >
> > Sometimes my posts take forever to appear (one took 3 days to appear
> > once) and most of the time other peoples' posts appear out of
> > sequence, i.e. I receive answers to questions before the questions
> > themselves!!
> >
> > Why is this?
>
> I quite regularly see email delivery problems to one ISP or another that
> might account for out-of-order, delayed or lost messages, so I'm not
> that surprised by this.
>
> If you do receive a delayed posting, it's nigh on impossible to
> determine the actual cause without being able to see the full headers
> for the message so I can cross-reference it with my own logs.
>
> James

[SNIP]

James was kind enough to analyse the headers of emails which had been
delivered to me out-of-sequence.

It appears that the hamsters stopped running in their wheels at Hotmail for
several hours, resulting in delivery weirdness.

Austin.