Why some posts arrive earlier than others?

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Alan Popow wrote:
> I don't know why I get some of these posts so late, and others (same
> newsgroup) not, but as my Latin teacher used to say, "Beta laten evah" (he
> stole it from Mad Magazine).
> Alan

Hey Alan, I guess is that some ISP's are more busy than others. Let's say
you are at a community college in a small town. Say it is a Sunday and
very few people are in the computer lab mailing emails. So in order to
save money maybe, the school uploads it's email and posts not every day. 
  Also I wonder about some non-moderated groups going thru some swear word
filter or racial slur filter or spam filter that slows the process down
also. Anyway, that is how it was explained to me. I wish I had a detailed
source of this info but I got the explanation in email when I was a only
on the internet 2 days. So I didn't save the email or ask for a website to
get more details about it. Which is what I do nowadays. I am still looking
for more detail on this question but I can't read every post in
news.newusers.questions to find the super detailed answer I want.
  Another thing, some access links to the internet backbone may not have
the strongest hardware to upload their posts and email. So they may crash
from time to time. Taking a few days to figure out who made backup copies
of all posts in the last two days. Old hardware may not be able to handle
the strain of increased numbers of us getting online. Thank goodness for
the National Science Foundation that is run by our tax dollars. 
  Lastly, Spokane WA is finally over it's 10 days without power because of
the ice storm. 100,000 homes were without power so maybe some ISP's were
hit and some emails and posts were damaged while in route thru there or
originating from there. Hmmmm could be something else. LIke hackers.
Take care, Jon Melusky
PS Call me on anything that I have said. I have picked up this stuff from
snippets at parties to emails to who knows where. Like I said, I may
archive ascii art but I didn't archive my first years emails or posts or
anything for that matter. Now I back up everything I can.
 
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