Gone astray in cyberspace

[dudwell]

I sent an email using Hotmail.com on 5 April. The recipient, with a btinternet.com address, says it arrived today, 18 April! Does this kind of delay often happen? Where can it have been?

[Technical Ben]

In the PCs outbox, waiting to login?
BT has had lots of login delays and email delays I've noticed... no idea if other providers do. (Some days I just plain cannot login, no idea why)

[Clive]

I use BT Internet as my e-mail provider and they are a disaster.  E-mails sometimes take hours to reach my wife in the next room!  And e-mails get lost too.  I really should switch to my little used GMail address and save myself the £5 a month extortion fee BT charge for their unreliable mailing system.  Trouble is I have lots of mailing lists and it would be a nightmare to create new ones. 

[Simon]

I can't believe you send emails to your wife in the next room!  Is that to order lunch?   

[Clive]

Oh there are lots of reasons to share e-mails.  Our son always sends them to me and I have to forward them.  But sometimes I just want to send her something of interest.