Just wanted to raise the profile of this issue
because I’m getting angry emails from my division’s members
complaining of email delays for emails I’ve sent.
I sent out an email on Saturday for field day and
it wasn’t delivered until Tuesday to some.
Yes, historically email was never supposed to be
real time but 3 days delay is simply not acceptable.
This time it’s emails sent to AOL, but randomly
we’ve been finding out other ISPs have had issues until we
banged the machine and something shook loose.
From my experience a lot of ISPs will “tar pit”
some e-mail unless it meets certain requirements. This means
that it will slow it completely down and throttle it to a
trickle. Apparently we’ve been falling under that.
This is the latest in a long string of issues
we’ve been having with email and it goes for ARRL.net forwards
and also the division email blasts. The email blasts are an
important tool to keep members engaged and informed. But it
becomes ineffective when we have these issues.
I would like to know:
1. If anyone else has been experiencing this.
2. Do we have a plan (Howard?) for addressing
this?
I would love to discuss improvements to the
infrastructure in our other discussion but for now I think this
is independent from that.
Thanks
Ria, N2RJ
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