Delayed messages

[James Knott]

John McGregor wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> One thing I've noticed in the recent discussions is that some messages
>> are significantly delayed.  In one example, a message I had sent last
>> night arrived this morning, over 12 hours later.  Here's a few of the
>> header lines:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I have only noticed this behaviour with the TLUG list and it doesn't
>> happen with all messages.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> I've noticed a general slowdown of email over the last week as well.
> It may be just coincidence, but Rogers has been rolling out a new
> antivirus solution to its Windows customers since the beginning of
> April and certainly our mail would have to traverse those servers.
>

Wouldn't that AV software be installed on the user's computer and not
the servers?  Also, wouldn't that affect all email, and not just TLUG? 
As the headers I included showed, it was about 12 hours from when that
other server to when Rogers received it.  So, the delay is apparently
outside of Rogers.


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