OT: mail delivery timing

[Fairlight]

The honourable and venerable GCC Consulting spoke thus:
> I sent 2 e-mails to the list recently
> 
> The first was an answer to John's long variable posting using reply all
> (Outlook).  This was sent at 11:35AM.
> 
> I also responded to Nancy's posting after this.  I was going to just reply to
> her off list but the decided to CC the list.  This e-mail was sent at 11:46.
> 
> The interesting thing was that I received the e-mail CC'd to the list almost
> immediately.  Time was 11:46.
> 
> The reply all e-mail was received at 11:56.  20 minutes to make the round trip.
> 
> Just something to ponder.

A few things to note...

Celestial's mail servers serve far more than just the filePro list, and can
get quite busy.  I know Bill has multiple lists, and I -believe- it also
handles user mail.  It could be as simple as load.

Additionally, if anything (like 1/4 of the 6.0 threads) get flagged for
something like a spam-similar subject line and need approval (and there are
so many filters that keep this place clean that more gets tagged for
approval than I think anyone appreciates), then you end up waiting for
manual intervention by someone that can approve the message.  THEN it has
to go through the outbound queue, which is again subject to load.

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