Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 18:00, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: >> Robert Vangel wrote: >> >> It usually takes about an hour for my posts to appear. >> >> I had to subscribe to the mailing list in order to be able to post to >> the >> newsgroup. Does that restriction not apply to po

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Adam Funk wrote: Robert Vangel wrote: It usually takes about an hour for my posts to appear. I had to subscribe to the mailing list in order to be able to post to the newsgroup. Does that restriction not apply to posting directly to the mailing list? If not, that would explain the spam. I

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Fabian: > Email and newsgroups aren't intended to be real-time communication > mediums. Sometimes they are, if they're working optimally, but if > not, it wasn't the intention of the protocol anyway. Besides, what happens when some box between you and the destination only runs

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Fabian
Email and newsgroups aren't intended to be real-time communication mediums. Sometimes they are, if they're working optimally, but if not, it wasn't the intention of the protocol anyway. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:00:24AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > I had to subscribe to the mailing list in order to be able to post to the > newsgroup. Does that restriction not apply to posting directly to the > mailing list? If not, that would explain the spam. Anyone can post to the mailing list

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Funk
Robert Vangel wrote: > This isn't a moderated list (hence the spam that appears every so often) > and I think that your tech support is just being lazy. The mailing list isn't moderated but the newsgroup version is. I think it's "automatically moderated" by sending incoming messages into the mai

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Vangel
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi The problem is like this. If I post a message to linux.debian.user then it takes about 0.5-1 hour to show up in the news group. The behaviour is same even if I use gmane. But if I am using the mailing list the messages show up immediately. I know this because I

my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

2005-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi The problem is like this. If I post a message to linux.debian.user then it takes about 0.5-1 hour to show up in the news group. The behaviour is same even if I use gmane. But if I am using the mailing list the messages show up immediately. I know this because I have experimented with two