Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote:Hi I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been sent. Among other things, this typically results in several identical responses to a question, as subscribers are unaware that somebody has already responded. I do not notice this on any other mailing lists.
I'm sure if someone donated a more powerful machine and more bandwidth, it would help. I've some opinions for slowness: 1) Overall crappiness of the Internet due to the exploit du jour. 2) time of day: the list seems slower during US working hours (but this might be my imagination). I know I've posted at 3 am and have seen my post within minutes (actually seconds but you'd never believe me :-) 3) People increase the load by posting over and over!! How stupid. ''Dr., it hurts when I do this to my arm.' 'Then don't do that''
mail does seem to get stuck on the mailserver at debian for a couple of hours
so it's probably not down to the internet - bandwith or server load seem the likely culprits.
other mailing lists I'm on certainly don't suffer this problem with mails returning in under a minute anormally
-- Sean