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To: jeer who wrote (30268)	12/17/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: QKAnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119973

I realize it is worsened by the heavy usage of the internet for obvious reasons lately but dollars and know how of mission critical architectures can fix this problem in one day.

To: jeer who wrote (30268)	12/17/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: Captain Ed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119973

If you, or anyone you are dealing with, is using AOL, forget it!! AOL is the Ameritrade of the internet. That is why they developed "instant messenger". For any normal ISP, e-mail is instant messaging!! For any normal internet situation, e-mail is almost always (at least 99.999% of the time) received in less than 1 minute...and this is terrible. In any decent system, e-mail should take no more than 5 seconds. I can send myself an e-mail from my regular internet provider to my university, or IBM account, and the message is in my in-box before I can get to it!! (My university account is forwarded to my regular account, too, so it is actually getting sent and received twice in the process. I have seen AOL emails take HOURS!! In fact, I can remember a few cases where a message was sent in the morning, and I did not receive it until the NEXT AFTERNOON!! You do, in most cases, need to make sure that your e-mail program is set to check for mail frequently. I use Eudora, and I set it to check for mail every 5 or 6 minutes; thus, any message that is sent to me, I know about it within 6 minutes. But, if someone sends me a message at 00:00:00, and my e-mail program does not check until 00:06:00, then I don't "get" the message until then. But, if I manually check at 00:00:10, it will almost always be there...unless AOL is in the picture somewhere. I have also had trouble sending messages to people with "msn" addresses, but I don't know about how long it took their messages to get to me. The bottom line is: e-mail is no different from any other internet packet data. It is just like a web page that you are calling up. If it takes you more than a couple of seconds to call up a web page, then something is seriously long. (Of course, if it is a graphics-rich web page it may take you a while to download it, but it should at least start downloading almost immediately.) I don't know for a fact, but from what I have seen, it appears that AOL (and possibly others) store e-mails in some sort of queue, and send them out on some undecipherable pattern. That is fine if you are trying to encrypt e-mail, and hide the origin, (and this is done by the normal encrypted email services), but it is not acceptable in normal, unencrypted e-mail. FWIW, Ed