Delayed messages

[James Knott]

JoeHill wrote:
> James Knott wrote: 
>
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Not necessarily. When I was with Sympatico they put in a predictably bad system
> for filtering viruses and such at the server level. It very badly fuxored my
> e-mail because it added all kinds of non-compliant headers that Spamassassin
> really hated.
>
>   
>> Also, wouldn't that affect all email, and not just TLUG?
>>     
>
> In my case, it was only certain lists that were affected: those that used
> Spamassassin to filter mail. A few lists started dropping my mails, especially
> those on Sourceforge. 
>  
>   

I guess we'll have to see if anyone else is noticing this and, if so,
who their ISP is.


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