Thanks, Pete.  Though that was mostly greek to me I get the general gist.
Nope, the mail delays aren't linear--for a given piece of mail, some get it
fairly quickly and some not for days.
 
Jilla
 
 
>Remember that LISTSERV distributions are not linear i.e., they
>don't go from the LISTSERV hosting site directly to the
>subscriber.  It depends upon a "host" ;-) of other sites and
>facilities.
>
>In particular SMTP at PSUVM.PSU.EDU is having some form of
>difficulty with the LISTSERV PEER host PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM.
>This difficulty might relate to resolving the IP address between
>the clients, stub resolvers, DNS caches, though probably NOT the
>authoritative DNSes,.  IP connectivity (PING and TRACEROUTE) to
>that host does not appear to be the problem.
>
>I had noticed THAT over the weekend and have made cognizant PSUVM
>sysadmins (I am not one there) aware of this difficulty and have
>participated in some conjecturing/probing.
>
>--  co-owner:   INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L
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