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Re: Slow list?



* Carel Fellinger (cfelling@iae.nl) [020314 17:53]:
> Is it just me, or are others too experiencing a rather slow
> debian-user?  It takes more then an hour just to get me own posting
> back!  This used to be mere minutes.

It sure is. I do remember messages appearing in minutes, but they are
taking MUCH longer these days. (Unfortunately, I don't have a good
definition of "these days" -- I don't know when I first noticed the
slowdown).

> 
> So what happened, is my ISP holding up the messages or is the debian
> mail server sluggish.  And if the latter, what has happened to it to
> make it so slow?

If it really is that the list is busier and the mailserver taxed, then
it's a sort of unfortunate catch-22 effect: when subscribers see a
question post that has no replies, it's more likely to get a flood of
replies, making the mail server even busier. I've noticed that happening
a lot, too: certain questions get 5-10 responses, and I suspect it's
simply because the early responses are getting delayed.

good times,
Vineet

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