At 10:08 1999/08/04 EDT, you wrote: >10:05 a.m. now > bonnie i'm in the middle of taking a count of all messages processed today and yesterday but in the meantime as i recall from my aolian days the aol system was frequently or sometimes even mostly hours behind the rest of the cyber world in message transporting time eg a reply to a simple command to listserv usually takes seconds or minutes but in my aolian days, it could take minutes or more likely hours i always wondered where the messages went while they were killing time.... janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>