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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Tom Stangl wrote:
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> > That would defeat the purpose of the Wanted emails, unless it only sent them out
> > to everyone at specific times of the day.
> >
> > There have been too many times where I've gone to order part(s) from a Wanted
> > email not 5 minutes after getting the email, and the part(s) are gone.
>
> I'd assume most opportunistic shoppers are using the Wanted messages, so
> if the mail is sent to everyone at (about) the same time, there's little
> difference that way.
>
> But if someone is browsing/searching the website, and happens across the
> items you want, before the Wanted mail was sent, then yes, they could
> get to it first.
>
> Steve
> Christopher! have you backed up your data?
Something about this kept bothering me. Finally the light went on :) The mail
transport between BrickBay and Interland appears to be quite quirky (and thats
being nice). I went back and examined the headers on a number of BrickBay
generated emails. The time difference between when it arrived at my isp and when
BrickBay handed it over to Interland varied from a low of 14 mins to a high of
several hours. Even if you jumped on it the momment the email arrives in your
mailbox, the item could have been sitting there for quite a bit. One email I
checked had a difference measured in *days* (but I think something odd was
happening, so I'll ignore that one).
Now, having said everything above, is mail broken again ? I just noticed an
order update that I have no email for. I sent myself a contact message, but
nothing after 30 mins. Not sure if this is just mail lag, or if it is gone
again.
Ray
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| (...) For the record, it took 3 hours for that test msg to get back to me. I think Interland's mail transport could use a little improvement. cc's from lugnet posts usually arrive in 15 secs. (...) Ray (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) I'd assume most opportunistic shoppers are using the Wanted messages, so if the mail is sent to everyone at (about) the same time, there's little difference that way. But if someone is browsing/searching the website, and happens across the (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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