If I would be asking a question, an open one, to a problem that can be handled in so many diffrent way's, I would love to hear people bring up suggestions.. and if it might be that people are echoing each other, that would reasure me in my decision.
Rather a duplicate, then no response what so ever. The tech bit.. I'm not realy intressted in.. if the reply's that I send to the list are posted within 6 hours.. ey.. I'm happy. It's the information that's important.. and if your in a hurry, you cocked up somewhere els. This list can be, but shouldn't be you last hope in a search to a solution to a problem. On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:23:44PM -0400, John Keimel wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 02:34:17AM +0200, Maarten van der Hoef wrote: > > Every day I see multiple replies with the same suggestions just because > > the repliers weren't able to see the latest reply. As hardware costs about > > null > > these days, I wouldn't know any other bottleneck (bandwidth, nehh ). > > So what's the problem with this list ? > > > > Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy with this list, just curious about it's > > big latency. > > Your comment seems like it's wondering about the list server software > and the machine on which it resides. Sure, that could be a factor. > I don't know the specs on that, nor on the volume of this list. > > However, you have to consider that everyone on the list has another > mailserver they get to deal with. So, if the listserver sends its mail > to me and my DSL connection is down, it bounces. Try again in four > hours. It's up? OK, it delivers. THat's 4 hours. > > I've noticed, running just shy of a dozen lower volume lists, that often > some of the larger providers will just stop accepting mail. "Nope, I'm > not going to take that mail. Try later". So, my list server queues it up > and tries again four hours later. I've had instances where providers > refuse mail for DAYS, though it's more often just hours. > > And then you have time zones. Funny how the people in Australia always > seem to be so chipper when I'm so sleepy! No, sorry, you'll have to > wait for my reply until I'm awake. > > And I'm not sure or not, but in most list servers, you can set your self > up for 'digest mode' because you hate the inane babble repeatedly during > the day, so you subject yourself to it only in one big massive dose so > it feels less painful. > -- -- Mark Lijftogt