At 02:30 PM 10/13/97 -0400, Barb wrote:
>I have a suspicion it ISN'T the volume of the LIST that's down. Rather
it's an
>"Internet Thing." that's slowing, and in many cases stopping the delivery of
>new email.........
and she also wrote.....
>THAT says to me that somewhere, something is happening waaay out there in
>Cyberspace... Something is slowing or in many cases bringing Internet to a
>near-halt.
I have been getting the normal volume of e-mail at the normal times-about
100 per day, everyday. I am served by a small, local Internet supplier who
has a lot phone line capacity. I never have a busy signal or any problem
connecting. Therefore the problem may be with the specific the Internet
supplier. Maybe as a ratio of the utilized capacity over the total
capacity approaches 1 (or a certain limit) for a given supplier, everything
slows down to the speed of continental drift. Or even slower, say the speed
of AOL.
Peace, John
