[Cialug] Question about mail list

[Nathan C. Smith]

Or you can go through the AOL routine of telling them about your server and your business and promising not to spam them so your messages will get accepted faster.  Dmaned if I can find the link now though.

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:53 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Question about mail list
> 
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Tim Wilson 
> <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Sorry to say it, but it could be Yahoo.  I've had problems 
> with Yahoo 
> >> delaying e-mails for hours or even days or even losing 
> them entirely.  
> >> I have a Yahoo account, but I much prefer my GMail 
> account.  If you 
> >> don't have one and would like one, e-mail me off-list and 
> I'll send 
> >> you an invite (I think you still need to be invited).
> >>     
> >
> > Nope.  One can sign up on one's own these days.
> >
> > Also, I second the Yahoo diagnosis, based on personal experience.
> >
> > -todd
> >   
> 
> If you watch the outgoing mailq on a mail server, you may see 
> that messages going to yahoo or aol will randomly sit in your 
> queue for days before going out. At one point you could 
> pretty much count on aol emails to take longer to get 
> accepted by them than if you sent a letter by snail mail.
> 
> -dc
> 
> 
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