Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:51:49 -0700
Reply-To:     David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: MOD Re: List Mail Problem
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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David, I meant to say in my opinion it has nothing to do with
the list. This is not new. It happened all the time and not just
to me but to many. 

Maybe 6 months or so ago this was discussed. And there was a 
conclusion that it was Yahoo that was the problem although no
evidence was present to support that conclusion.

I thought I found the reason to blame Yahoo for the problem. 

When I logged into the server that holds my mailbox the server
did not find that I had mails on another server until a day or
two later. Those mails probably got added to my mailbox as soon as
they were found and they were added in the order from which they
were received, but not added to the top. 

This explains why I had no list mails for 2 or more days but found
a few dozens of them early this morning. Yahoo probably has hundreds
if not thousands of mail servers in its server farm. The server
that my mailbox is on took 2 days to find all the mails sent to
me and were received by god knows what servers in the farm.

If you use Yahoo Mail you may want to always check mails back a
few days. You may find some unread mails that look like they were
missed by you. 

David


--- On Sun, 8/30/09, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> David, the list itself has been working fine as far as I
> know, and things coming through in sequence; so it's very
> unlikely *not* to be something in Yahoo, I think.