Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod wrote: >>Sounds like you have a very busy mail server. Mine is that busy once >>a month, on the 15th (70,000 copy newsletter distribution in >>progress), but the rest of the time it's quite idle and moves mail >>quite fast. > > I use the EDU account my college gave me. Normally messages come to me > pretty quickly. And the EDU account is from Yahoo Magazines #1 most Wired > Campus in the US; so I see no reason why it would be sluggish. one word: SPAM. And a "wired" campus has nothing to do with the speed of a mail server, which given that the campus is heavily wired, could be drowning under the load of all the mail clients on all those wires. Pete