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   davgeosmith
   Member

   Why is it tht at times I am receiving the giveaways not at all over weekends and when they catch up on the day after the weekend the giveaway offer time has exoired
   This has happened again this weekend
   Any help out there

   Posted 18 years ago #
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   ShieldsUp
   Member

   If you mean you're on an email notification from GiveAway and your emails are arriving long after they're sent, you have to blame either your ISP (it could be an internal delivery problem, especially if it's Yahoo because they've been having a lot of problems lately) or it could be an intermediate server somewhere between point a Giveaway and point b your inbox. If you look at the full header of your email, you should be able to trace the hops and see long it took for each individual server to pass your email down the line from GiveAway. Some servers have funny or peculiar names. Usually, it takes just milliseconds to move data along, but I've seen some instances where a particular email is left stranded for hours. You have to bring that to the attention of your ISP and they should alert the administrator of that node, but they usually won't bother unless you can prove (by saving your full headers) that the same server is to blame for multiple delays. There was one server in the southwest US that consistently held up emails going from southern california to the northeast US by as much as 12+ hours. Once that was proven, Sprint began rerouting around it.

   Posted 18 years ago #
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   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   I gave up on the email delivery option. Rather than expecting it to be delivered to me on time, I use a news feed reader and the RSS subscriptions.

   I haven't cancelled the emails yet (redundancy?) so I can confirm - I received one of the emails about 20 minutes AFTER the giveaway finished.

   Posted 18 years ago #

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