On Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:51:47 -0500 you said: >The Temple University computer center was apparently shut down for >maintenance/upgrading over part of the week end. Maildelivery, however, >began to turn erratic Friday night and did not fully recover Monday. >In fact, messages still run from four to twenty-four hours late, and I >have been receiving responses to messages from other parts of the >country that have not yet even arrived in my mailbox. In addition, >I usually get from 25 to 100 error messages a day, and in the past >five days there have been no more than five (I wouldn't complain >if the change in pace/pattern were not so abrupt). I suspect that >there may be two independent problems involved. Stan Horwitz >wrote that the mail delivery system had choked for some reason >over the week end but was supposed to be working again. Assuming >that the problem at Temple has been rectified, has anyone else >experienced bottlenecks along the backbone? Hello people; Being as though, I am the Stan Horwitz who Ingrid referred to, I am obliged to put in my two cents here. Ingrid's concern about this situation is understandable. Our only SMTP agent on our VM system seems to be incredibly back logged the past few days. One of the people who maintains this our SMTP agent felt that the backlog was the result of our system being down for 12 hours last Sunday. I feel otherwise. As a result, I brought this problem to the attention of management a few hours ago and asked that our SMTP be fixed or other steps taken to improve Internet mail throughput here as soon as possible. This problem definitely took us by surprise! Eric, thanks for offering to offload some of our traffic. I think its an option that we won't need to take. Stan Horwitz, Consultant | Bitnet | Internet Temple University | V4039@TEMPLEVM | [log in to unmask] Manager of Help-Net and E-mail postmaster for VM.TEMPLE.EDU and TEMPLEVM