[SWLUG] Is this working?

[Neil Jones]

Dick Bain wrote:
> 2009/5/27 P.G. Richardson <p.g.richardson at phantomjinx.co.uk>:
>   
>> np ;)
>>
>> --
>>     
> Well this arrived at 9:53 according to gmail :D
>   
The time of sending is encoded into the headers and email reading 
programs use it. The message to which I am responding is timestamped
14:57.and it shows this time in my mailbox. I suspect gmail does the same.
 However the headers show it arriving at my isp for me to access it at 
15:32 And what is more I noticed it because at this time I was dealing 
with someone over the phone and by email to sort something out so I 
have  other emails that I know I downloaded as soon as they arrived at 
my ISP because I was told verbally precisely when they were sent.
I had one at 15:30 and one at 15:39 when I accessed the second  your 
message arrived LATE!

Something is or at least was up because emails don't normally take more 
than half an hour to propagate.The others I was dealing with over the 
phone arrived virtually instantly.


Neil