24 hour lag time

February 1, 2001

As I write this post Friday AM, I see posts that I wrote on Thurs. AM finally

showing up. This is unusual (at last it was under egroups) and hopefully will

be faster soon.

Randi Kreger

List owner, Welcome To Oz Lists

Coauthor, Stop Walking on Eggshells

Love and Loathing, Hope for Parents

February 2, 2001

Randi wrote:

<<

As I write this post Friday AM, I see posts that I wrote on Thurs. AM

finally showing up. This is unusual (at [least] it was under egroups)

and hopefully will be faster soon.

>>

Hi All,

One can keep their fingers on the pulse of the Internet by going to the

Andover site (then scroll down) to check:

(1) the flow of Internet traffic, and

(2) the % of packets that are lost.

If anyone is interested, that website is located at:

I have accounts on both AOL and Earthlink. Lots of AOL posts are lost in

transit and their advertisements are uniquitous and take lots of time in

loading. Hotmail is also a poor email server. For anyone with a Hotmail

account I'd recommend that they switch to a www.Yahoo.com email account

-- especially since Yahoo recently merged with eGroups.

This morning I had three messages arrive in my AOL emailbox for this

group and 13 at this Earthlink email address.

Part of the problem may be due to the sheer number of people who now

have computers and are on the Internet throughout the world (ie, the

internet is growing faster than was planned for), which may also be a

factor in the shortage of electricity (blackouts) here in California and

various other parts of the US.

Gotta check on the rest of the email and get back to reading.

Hugs,

Edith

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