Re: list delay
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:37:09PM +0000, Sean Burlington wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
[ snip ]
> >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
Sometimes, but not all the time. Thus, we can conclude that this is
not a constant problem.
> 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
No offense, but I seriously doubt that last Friday and Saturday you
were getting replies in under a minute from any mailing list.
OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in
need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm
sure donations will be accepted :-)
Say, do those other mailing lists (why would you need other lists??
:-) apply spamfilter to every message?
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