Nobody has to push a button anymore. Ex-Director Rehman made that motion some years ago, and it carried. Therefore nobody has to approve our emails to our divisions. This was finally fully removed earlier this year after I experienced issues with delays, not realizing what "immediate release" was about. (Nobody taught us newbies how to use the system, we had to figure it out.) The issue about the delay seems to be something I've experienced with ISPs. In my early days of email lists for breaking news and business news we got letters from Comcast and other ISPs laying out their guidelines and throttling policies. Some had hard limits per calendar day and some were on a rolling basis and had thresholds. GMail/google seems to have a policy of de-escalation where the first blast goes out for around 200 subscribers then gets slower and slower. (But like many things google it's a black box, IIRC). Blame spammers. They ruined it for everyone... 73 Ria, N2RJ On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 20:41, Michael Ritz <w7vo@comcast.net> wrote:
I have had a very quick response to all my NW Division newsletters that have gone out. Usually within the 1/2 hour. I was wondering if the sending is automatic, or if somebody physically has to push a key somewhere at HQ. It appears to be automatic, as I've sent out many newsletters on weekends, and often at odd late night or early morning hours.
That said, what I have had an issue with is the ARRLF (Foundation) e-mail reflector. I sent a couple of e-mails out to the list in January that didn't get delivered until May! I don't know if it was a Comcast (my ISP), or an ARRL IT issue though.
73;
Mike
W7VO
On June 25, 2019 at 9:02 AM Rod Blocksome <rod.blocksome@gmail.com> wrote:
Ria, I've not experienced any problems with emails to midwest division members. Rod, K0DAS
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:47 AM rjairam@gmail.com < rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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