Subj : mail delays
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : andrew clarke
Date : Mon Apr 16 2007 02:40 am

Sun 2007-04-15 09:01, Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394) wrote to Peter Knapper:

 PK>> A 4 day round trip?... you were lucky. I remember 5 days each way 
 PK>> (a 10 day round trip) from here (NZ) to Europe........;-)

 RdL> OMG unbelievable!  That must have been quite painful.  Imagine
 RdL> businesses relied on email today that took 5 days to be delivered.
 RdL> You'd might as well write a letter on paper and mail it. 

In the mid 90s it was more usual for FidoNet echomail to take a day or two to 
travel from the US to Australia, although sometimes it was hard to tell because 
of time zones.  Australian echomail hubs would usually only poll their US hub 
over dialup modem once every morning, although I think some polled twice a day. 
 Which reminds me, the lack of full routing information has always bothered me 
with FidoNet mail, but that's another rant that I probably started 15 years 
ago.

Interzone netmail reliability was always very hit-and-miss in my experience, 
unless you "crashed" it direct.  Maybe this is less true now, but some sysops 
could be a bit lax on their netmail routing these days.  Who knows.  Most 
people using BinkP mailers should just be crashmailing each other now.  Bit of 
a shame echomail can't be adapted to suit.  Although, I have an idea... ;-)

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