email flakey?

[Big Dave]

I'm getting stuff arriving 12 to 24 hours after clients said they sent it - or not at all in several cases over the last 48 hours.

What's up with that?
Anybody else on ihug weirded out?

Ah

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Email Delays - 01/08/2006 2006-11-01 10:31:58

Summary:
Customers may be experiencing longer than normal delays for emails to reach them.

Technical summary:
High mail queues have been identified on our mail filtering servers. This will cause delays for email being processed by these devices.

Resolution:
Engineers are investigating ways to reduce the queue sized on our mail filtering servers..
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as you were.

[Gremlin]

Resolution:
Engineers are investigating ways to reduce the queue sized on our mail filtering servers..

Engineer: mmm .... boss wants this cleared eh? Doesn't care what it takes....

*delete*

[The_Dover]

that was the way they did it at telecom a couple of times.

really pissed a few customers off......

[Filterer]

Aparently becasue of some new virsu that take control of you computer and sends spam the ISPs in NZ have seen a 40% increase in the amount of spam within the last week or two and the servers just cant handle it. I think there was an article in the NZ herald