How come I receive group emails such a long time after they were posted (almost a day later and all at once)?

Question

Message delivery is set to "individual emails" (not daily digest), so the mails arrive individually, but at the same time (or at least with no more than a minute or two between the 1st and the last of a cluster).

Also: how do I respond to the answers given to my questions here??? Other than as I've done here, add details to my original post after crazy_mom2_one's answer?

Answer 1

Shykat's first paragraph provided a pretty good answer to your original question, DAN E.

Now to address your question about responding to the answers here.  Adding Additional Details like you did is the only way to respond publicly.  However, there is sometimes a way to reply privately; it depends on the answerer's profile settings.  If you want to see if you can reply to someone privately, click on the avatar or grey shadow that appears just above their screen name.  This will show that user's profile.  Towards the top-middle of the profile will either be a note User Does Not Allow Email or a link with the word Email followed by their screen name.  If you see the latter, then you can send a private e-mail to that person by clicking on that link.

Note that you can also click on the grey shadow above your own screen name to check your own profile settings.  (Another way to do this is to click on the My Profile link that appears near the upper-right-hand corner of nearly every page on the Yahoo Answers web site.)  And when you check your own profile in this way, you can even change some of the settings, such as whether other Answers users can e-mail you, by clicking the Edit My Info link in the section at the top-middle of your profile.  If you do this, read through the resulting page and change any settings that you want to change.  Don't forget to click the Preview button (near the lower-right-hand corner) when you're done.

Answer 2

*** the mail header will tell you which end the delay is on, Yahoo groups or your mail server. if you don't know how to read a mail header to determine this, send the help form, copy and paste the whole header to that and yahoo will tell you

help form

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/...

for replies, this area you can only reply by adding 'additional details'- this is not a forum style Q&A like Moderator Central is. this YA is more a 'compact' style LOL! this does serve the purpose to find additional comments w/o scrolling or clicking to read it ******

if it's all in one mail, it's digest setting.

if you want to change this,

go to this link http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups click edit my groups on the top left- locate group (if there's more than one) under the column message delivery, click drop down box and select mail choice- click save changes

Answer 3

Sometimes messages can be held back due to a bottle neck where a router is down somewhere along the pathway of getting your messages from one point to another.  Once the blockage is cleared, most of the messages continue on to their desitiation.... usually.  There's not always a good rhyme or reason to it since there are so many different routes in the world of the internet.

As to why you can't reply to a "thread" you already started, I would love to know that as well, since I have one started about my current problem of NOT receiving any email from any of my Yahoo groups and I'm members of a lot!  I'm on individual emails and have received NOTHING from the groups that I belong to since midnight mountain time last night.

I even left a tech request about this issue at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/... in the hope that they will reply within their stated 24 hours.... and that the reply will actually get through.  Most private email is making it just fine... just none of my yahoo group mail and I sure as heck miss it!!!!  

Good luck!