On Wed, 13 May 2015, Alan Ianson wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> i see that your PING test arrived and was processed... you should 
 ml> have the (routed) response by now ;)

 AI> I do, it took 90 minutes there and back.

at least part of that time, up to 60 minutes, was spent sitting here waiting
for the hourly mail processing event ;) 

 AI> Now I know the route to your node is good.. :)

hehehe, yup :) 

)\/(ark