What about the email delays?

[vefatica]

Last night I emailed an article which I received an hour later. I can only
suppose that no one, including the person to whom I was replying, saw it for an
hour. I posted another article tonight at 22:18 ... haven't received it yet (at
23:05). Ah! just got it at 23:08.

Rex, if it's true that no mail is delivered when no one is browsing the web
forums, don't you find that intolerable?

This article emailed at 23:13.

 

[p.f.moore]

On 23/06/2008, vefatica <> wrote:

> Last night I emailed an article which I received an hour later. I can only
> suppose that no one, including the person to whom I was replying, saw it for an
> hour. I posted another article tonight at 22:18 ... haven't received it yet (at
> 23:05). Ah! just got it at 23:08.
>
> Rex, if it's true that no mail is delivered when no one is browsing the web
> forums, don't you find that intolerable?
>
> This article emailed at 23:13.

Would a simple script that grabbed the various forum pages be enough
to trigger the email? It could be run in a batch job every 10 minutes
or so. It wouldn't even need to be run by JPSoft (although they may
get cross if everyone starts loading their server with crawler
jobs...)

Paul.