On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, newlxuser spewed into the ether:
> Good Linux to e'body,
>
> Recently LIH members are complaining about delayed mails. I
> do'nt know the reason but my observations are as below:
<snip>
> Above mail pattern shows that , though the LIH digest, Vol 1
> #670 was compiled and posted to the LIH member ( to me ), on
> Fri, 14 Sep 2001 on 21:30:02 -0700 , it contains some
> messages of 14th Sep and some of 15th Sep.
See the problems arising with different time zones. Convert everythin
to UTC everywhere and all will be well.
> First message is of 15th Sep with time stamp 01:25:50 +0530
> (IST).
>
> One message from middle portion is from Fri, 14 Sep 2001
> with time stamp 22:24:16 +0530 .
>
> Again the last message is of Sat, 15 Sep 2001 with time
> stamp 09:45:02 +0530 .
>
> So it seems that , there is *not* any date/time sequence,
> while compiling the LIH Digests. Or at least, it so appear
> from the prima facae.
This will be in the porder in which the mails are recieved by mailman.
They may have been stuck in some mail queue or the other, probably at
your ISPs mail server. SMTP is after all, a store and transport
protocol.
> Actully, how the Digest is compiled, I do'nt know. Some time
> back, I was not recieving the mails , which my friend was
> recieving ( NOT in Digest form, but ordinary single mails ).
mailman gets mails, and sends a digest of the total when either:
The size of recieved mails exceeds the configured digest size.
The time set to send a digest is reached.
<snip>
> Has he set *HIDDEN* flag of his /bin/Raju , the way
> /bin/laden has done recently ? ;-)
Probably too busy to post, but administering the list.
Devdas Bhagat
--
"But this one goes to eleven."
-- Nigel Tufnel
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