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