[wplug] A question about the list.

[Procario, Michael]

Can @home users use an outside mail server? I have an account at
crosswinds.net which has free pop and smtp servers, which is much more
reliable than what you describe about @home.  However, on my ISP
(Netcom->Mindspring->Earthlink) I cannot use the crosswinds smtp server. I
have to use the Earthlink one. It is supposed to be a antiSPAM policy. 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Tessitor [mailto:dttessitor at home.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:51 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] A question about the list.


While your summary could be part of it, one look at your email address
should supply
the biggest part of the reason.  I have literally received email on my @home
accounts
three weeks after it was sent --- one by Brian Sammon was sent to the wplug
list and
had the directions to the Installfest; I only got it in time for the next
meeting
instead.  The @home roulette should explain why you don't receive things at
your
computer in order.

Even restamping times by the mail server isn't going to fix @home's
abominable
service.  It's been that way for some time now.  If it weren't for being up
to 100
times faster for down loads than a 56K modem (as much as 480+ kBytes/sec. or
4.8Mb/sec. during Thanksgiving vacation) it would definitely would not be
worth
keeping.

Email sorting out of sequential order on your computer once it's received is
usually a
matter of a sending computer's clock being set incorrectly.  A few minutes
can make a
difference if a response to a posting is made quickly afterward.

Dave

=========

Bill Powell wrote:

> At first that is what I thought, but in some cases the original note
physically
> arrives
> minutes or hours later.
>
> The previous statement aside,  I think some of the cases might be that the
system
> clocks on the boxes that originate individual notes might be set to
different time
> zones than those of the others, since I know many of the wplug list
members no
> longer live in the Pittsburgh area.
>
> Bill

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