> If you get it by email, then get someone using SMTP to
> send you some test messages on a weekend, and see if
> those are also slow, if they are then a nice calm phone
> call should be placed to the folks at your ISP, and see
> if they are having problems.

Just looking at the headers on the worst of my messages. It seems
that my ISPs SMTP server held up the message for around 17 hours, the
last 3 hours of delay occurred within the *groups cluster.

This is based on the assumption that the *groups servers are accurate
in reporting their timezones as 0000 offset. I would have thought the
servers were in the USA, but it looks like they must be in the UK.

Looks like I am going to be very happy with my change of ISPs next
week.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing