Lummoxx wrote: > > They've all arrived. > > Sorry for the bombardment.
There are a number of reasons for mailing list delays. The lists system may have been offline for memory upgrades that have been recently occuring on some machines on the gnu.org network. Or lists.gnu.org may have been overloaded with spam (the gnu.org machines are the target of so much spam that at times it amounts to a denial of service attack) and everything delayed while the backlog was processed. If you were a new subscriber to the list then all new subscribers to GNU mailing lists are initially moderated as a spam prevention measure. In which case a human needed to review the message to ensure that you were a human and not a spambot. Spambot attacks have been frequent lately. Once the initial contact has been established then subsequent communication occurs without delay. If your account has previously been a subscriber but has also been sending spam because of virus infection or forged addresses or whatever then your account will be moderated to prevent future spam on the mailing lists. It is all a very imperfect process but within the limits of what software is installed and running it is the best process that we have in order to keep the mailing lists as usable as possible. Bob Speaking as one of the listhelpers.
