Re: Why is there a 4-8 hour lead time for my messages to appear?

Good point Buck.  For more realtime you could use IBM Community Tools. 
Granted it has it's pros and cons.  You could also use SameTime.  (Which 
may come with the Enterprise Edition).  I use both.  I even have SameTime 
linked to AOL instant messenger.  With that setup I can SameTime some of 
the IBMer's I deal with on a regular basis.  And some of the midrange.com 
group have shared their AOL links with me.

Robert Berendt, CCP
Sametime/AOL chat:  robberendt





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It's a sign of the times I guess.  When I started to use email and
listservers in the 80s, I thought that email to the other side of the 
world
in a couple or three days was pretty fast and convenient.  Even now, I use
the news.gmane.org news servers instead of email for most of David's 
lists.
I look at them twice a day (or more often if I get a break).  I am very
happy with overnight response time.

Why do I feel that way?  Because email is an asynchronous communications
mechanism; like a carrier pigeon.  Put a message in one end, and some time
later it appears at the other end.  If I have an urgent matter and require
immediate assistance, I use the telephone.  This comment is NOT directed 
at
anybody in particular, it just explains my mentality (meagre as it may 
be.)

I think it's a sign of the times that people begin to accept 
near-real-time
email as the natural order of things.  And that's a good thing...
Technology can be wonderful!
  --buck



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