Re: posts turning out late in my inbox?

paola.dimaio@gmail.com wrote:
> thanks folks, not important per se, just checking that we have our
> settings right
> 
> if it was a spam filter issue, then Gavin would have received the
> message directly because william replied both to the list and to Gav in
> cc, Gav can you confirm that please
> 
> if that so, how did the message get unblocked from the spam filter just now?
> did someone mechanically unspammed it, or does the system processes
> messages in batches?
> 

You misunderstand. That message was probably not spammed (or unblocked
from the spam filter). It is probably way more simple than that: the
spamfilter on our server had a queue of zillions of incoming emails that
had to be processed before that very mail was processed and found not
guilty:-)

Ivan

> at least we know how much to rely on the list for real time for future
> correspondence
> 
> Thanks a lot for your prompt support
> P
> 
> On 6/20/07, *Ivan Herman* <ivan@w3.org <mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Paola,
> 
>     I forward your questions to our system people who may know the answer.
> 
>     However, the unfortunate fact is that, time to time, our spam filters
>     are absolutely overloaded which does create, sometimes, long delays.
>     (You should realize that we have tons of mailing lists and you do not
>     even want to know the number of spams that are filtered out every days.
>     A real disaster:-)
> 
>     Ivan
> 
>     paola.dimaio@gmail.com <mailto:paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > HI Ivan
>     > cc public list
>     >
>     > Just checking the dynamics of this mailing list
>     >
>     > william posted this message on june 20, 3.41 am , which si 12
>     hours ago
>     > Gavin replied 8 hours ago
>     > but I received it only 2 hours ago in my inbox
>     >
>     > could you please let me know what kind of email group settings could
>     > prevent this (long) gaps
>     > in the communication? are there any tricks that Iwe should know of?
>     > thanks
>     >
>     > Paola
>     >
>     > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     > From: *William Waites* <ww@groovy.net <mailto:ww@groovy.net>
>     <mailto:ww@groovy.net <mailto:ww@groovy.net>>>
>     > Date: Jun 20, 2007 3:41 AM
>     > Subject: Re: automagic notifications and coordination...
>     > To: Gavin Treadgold <gt@kestrel.co.nz <mailto:gt@kestrel.co.nz>
>     <mailto: gt@kestrel.co.nz <mailto:gt@kestrel.co.nz>>>
>     > Cc: W3C Disaster Management Ontology List
>     > <public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org
>     <mailto:public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org>
>     > <mailto: public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org
>     <mailto:public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org>>>
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:09:33PM +1200, Gavin Treadgold wrote:
>     >>
>     >> E.g. within the plan may be a list of people that need to be
>     notified
>     >> if a certain event occurs. Wouldn't it be fantastic if the simple act
>     >> of editing the plan dynamically modified the actual group within the
>     >> messaging module as soon as the change is submitted (and approved if
>     >> required). And a link is created automatically next to the list in
>     >> the plan that takes the user directly to the form to send out an
>     >> alert using the messaging module.
>     >
>     > Nifty indeed, however in practical scenarios it is important to
>     address
>     > infrastructure that would normally be used for this sort of thing that
>     > may not be available.
>     >
>     > As a case in point, in Southern Mississippi and Louisiana, in the wake
>     > of Hurricane Katrina, it was a good month and a half or two months
>     > before the cellular networks were functioning with any semblance of
>     > normalcy and even then only in some areas. Notifications by SMS or
>     > telephone call would have been impossible. All communications in the
>     > region for the initial period coordinated with the assistance of the
>     > Amateur Radio Service (excepting perhaps the US Navy and National
>     Guard
>     > who have their own UHF/VHF facilities). I believe that, at the
>     > beginning at least, it was not well known by the various authorities
>     > that the Amateur Radio Service *exists* to provide communications
>     > support in emergency scenarios where the normal infrastructure is
>     > non-existant or destroyed.
>     >
>     > Simply a caution about depending too much upon infrastructure that may
>     > disappear the moment it is needed...
>     >
>     > Another anectode from that time concerns the FEMA web site that was
>     > intended to allow survivours to claim their benefit disbursement from
>     > the Federal Government (around $2k IIRC). Putting aside the red tape
>     > associated with, "I have no ID, it was all washed away", there was a
>     > very serious problem: the web site was constructed using proprietary
>     > technology (in this case Microsoft's Active-X extensions). Why
>     does this
>     > matter? Well the dozens or hundreds of donated computers which many
>     > volunteers attempted to set up for the survivours to use were useless
>     > for this purpose because (1) the web site did not work with Linux and
>     > (2) most of the computers were too old to run anything recent
>     enough to
>     > support the extensions required by FEMA's web site. This is one of the
>     > clearest examples that I know of about proprietary and encumbered
>     software
>     > contributing directly to the misery and despair of very many people.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > -w
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     >
>     >
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>     > School of Information Technology
>     > Mae Fah Luang University
>     > Chiang Rai - Thailand
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> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
> Paola Di Maio *****
> School of Information Technology
> Mae Fah Luang University
> Chiang Rai - Thailand
> *********************************************

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