[outages] Long latency in receiving email on this list/Other observations about today's Google Incident

[Larry Sheldon]

Seth Mattinen wrote:

> As far as deliveries, yeah, I notice some posts to the list show up
> hours later than others. Never tried to gather any data about it, though.

When I saw this topic come up, I chuckled to my self: "yaknow, it was 
not that long ago that we marveled that I could get an email from 
Sausalito to College Park and an answer back in less time than the same 
messages would take by US Mail."

When it got down to a roundtrip in the same day.....
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                                              learn from their mistakes.
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