On 8/24/2015 7:52 PM, Rick Walter wrote:
What is the average time between someone sending a post and when it actually appears on the BB?
When a message "appears on the BB" has a couple of different answers. Your note "appeared" via the web interface a few seconds before 2:47 PM EDT today
http://amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2015-August/054624.html
Google's mail server accepted the remailed message from amsat-bb to wb3csy@gmail.com at 2:47:12 EDT. Once Gmail accepted the message, that is the last I can see of it from the logs on our mail server. I don't know when it "appeared" in your in your inbox. Google does strange and mysterious things* to protect its users from spam, perhaps they are using some new method that results in delivery delays that can't be observed from the sending mail server.
Rick, thanks for this report. I'll see if there is anything I can do to improve delivery from our end.
-Joe KM1P AMSAT Electronic Services
*Sometimes our mail server is "greylisted" by Google. Greylisting is a spam control method where mail is temporarily rejected on the theory that spammers usually don't attempt periodic retries to a temporary delivery failure like legitimate mail senders do. It is not clear why we are put on Google's greylist (or how we get off of it), but that does not appear to be what happened here since they accepted the remailed message right away.