{"article":{"id":149407,"heading":"Networking: E-mail as slow as snail mail?","author":"UPI","created":"2006-03-07 20:26:45","modified":"2006-03-07 20:26:45","last_modified":"Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:26:45","article":"

CHICAGO, March 6 (UPI) -- You send a crucial e-mail on a Monday morning, but it doesn't arrive in the client's mailbox, across town, until Thursday afternoon. You lose a pending deal. Exasperating? Yes, but increasingly, as a result of the profound demands placed on e-mail network servers, including spam, spyware and viruses, legitimate e-mail messages that should take seconds to get to the intended recipient may take days, experts tell United Press International's Networking. E-mail delivery, it seems, is now sometimes as slow as the U.S. Postal Service.

Last week the technology developer MX ToolBox Inc. launched the first ever e-mail performance index, the first index to rate the health and performance of thousands of e-mail systems across the globe, at http:\/\/www.mxtoolbox.com\/MXWATCH.aspx<\/a> By Gene Koprowski

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