Michael C. Berch wrote,
[attribution lost]
> > Um, as long as we're exchanging favors, would it be possible to
> > do anything about the fact that it seems to take, on average,
> > twelve to thirty-six hours for mail I send to the list to make
> > it back to my account? (blank.org is my personal domain on my
> > personal box, and I _know_ that it's accessible...)
>
> Hmmm. I think the problem is that you are subscribed to list-managers
> at a different address than your messages originate from, and since
> the lists here are (intentionally) members-only for posting, they
> get held for Majordomo for approval.
There is *definitely* something wrong, or at least very weird, with
the way mail from this list is distributed. I am subscribed from
two addresses:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for historical reasons; this was intended to be temporary but I've
let it go as an experiment, meaning to write about it. They both
go to the same mailbox.
*ALL* mail from List-Managers, not just my own posts, is delayed to me.
And the tiac.net mail arrives HOURS ahead of the sunspot.tiac.net
mail. From anywhere else on the internet, sunspot is slightly faster
(one or two less hops). It's as if they're being doled out one at a
time, with some huge batch in between them. (I can tell which is which
by a "for" in the Received headers.)
Just a random example: Nathan Mehl's recent post in this thread, see
below. The delays are typical. Appreciate it if you could explain.
(GreatCircle.com isn't still using that paper tape interface
to the internet, is it? :)
Cheers,
Stan
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