Just a quick update to my note from earlier today...According to an 
email administrator at Dartmouth, the latency that some of our 
UVCB-MEMBERS subscribers have been experiencing (esp. Yahoo users) is 
based partly on "normal" behavior for handling bulk emails, and partly 
on how Yahoo does things.

1. Email from listserv's (for example the software we use to manage our 
UVCB-MEMBERS list) is coded and prioritized as "bulk."

2. Every receiving email system (e.g. company systems and services such 
as google, yahoo, verizon, etc) handles "bulk"-prioritized emails 
differently. Yahoo (I am told...) is "notorious," sometimes delaying 
delivery of incoming bulk emails for more than three days.

By way of example, I have registered as a UVCB-MEMBERS subscriber via 
several email systems (HP's corporate system plus gmail and yahoo) and I 
see a dramatic difference in latency; HP and gmail process the mail very 
quickly, yahoo much less so.

We set up this list as a way to consolidate and to make emailing to 
fellow UVCB members less error-prone. Unfortunately, emailing to 
listservs does not have the same immediacy as point-to-point emails, 
instant messaging, etc...

John

John S. Erickson wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> One of our members has reported experiencing delays of sometimes two 
> days for emails on this list sent to her Yahoo email account (e.g. 
> receiving Carole's Friday email on Sunday, etc).
> 
> I'm wondering two things:
> 
> 1. Do others of you on Yahoo (there are six of you) experience similar 
> delays?
> 
> 2. Are there any others of you (i.e. not Yahoo) who experience delays?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> PS: This email is being sent approx. 8:09a EDT Monday...