I have had a couple of instances lately of very late arriving email...

I, too, have been surprised by e-mail messages which refer to earlier messages, reportedly sent to me and others, to which one of the others is responding, but which I have not yet received. It then became clear that some stuff was getting through the cyber-pipe like a dose of salts through a heifer while other stuff is inexplicably delayed, for as long as three days. When I inquired of my ISP about this, some techno-geek wrote (copied) an obscure response about "the increased traffic due to the worm" and such. It seems to be smoothing out, now. Perhaps we should sing "Ding, dong, the worm is dead."