Missing messages (part 2)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 9/7/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
>
>  RonButters writes:
>
> >The missing messages finally arrived at 11:57 pm. some 8 hours late, Does
> >anyone have an explanation for this phenomenon? Am I the only one that this
> >happens to? Could it be a problem with AOL?
> >
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Can't say about AOL, having never used it, but long delays in message
> delivery have happened to me fairly often.  In one or two cases, delays of
> several days.

At this point I think someone is supposed to invoke Ted Stevens and
the Series of Tubes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes


--Ben Zimmer

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