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Re: missing message
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2009 Aug 21, 00:23 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2009 Aug 21, 00:23 -0700
No, that wasn't the weird part.The message had arrived immediately because I could read it on the Navlist thread but when I then looked for it in the archive it wasn't there. Nor had it been emailded to me. Oh, or are you saying that the archive gets the messages just like we do, by email from Navlist? and that that was the delay in the email system? gl On Aug 21, 3:47�am,wrote: > Gary, you wrote: > > "Now 9575 has shown up in the archive but after 9576, quite weird." > > No, not at all weird. It happens quite often. Checking the database for the messages of 2008 (don't worry: I only wasted 120 seconds on this!), it appears that roughly 1 out of 75 messages arrives out of order. This has nothing to do with NavList. It's just normal behavior for email which is a rather low priority activity on the Internet. Most messages arrive within a minute or less, but rarely they can take thirty minutes or even hours to propagate. Don't worry about it unless 12 or more hours elapse. > > Sometimes, rarely, messages don't deliver at all to some email addresses for all sorts of reasons. I've recently set up the message boards/archives at fer3.com/arc to check for messages on two different servers widely "separated" on the Internet which seems to guarantee that no messages are lost there (at fer3.com/arc) and also means that messages arrive out of numerical order less often. > > -FER --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---