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Janet, I once counted for a week. The only thing I could decide was vacations, weekends and the way the wind was blowing. Lots of help , eh ( for the Canadians ). Nita janet paterson wrote: > 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]>