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Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?



On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:17, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote:
> > Is this just me or is the mailinglist server terribly slow? I sent a
> > message to the list at 9:15 PM and I got it back 2 hours later around
> > 11:20 PM.... So this is 2 full hours to process the email on the Debian
> > server... Am I correct here?
> 
> Wrong question.  You should have asked, "I sent a message to the list
> at 9:15 PM local time and I got it around two hours later.  I'd like
> to see this interval reduced.  Where can I donate a new, more powerful
> server to Software in the Public Interest to take over for murphy?"
> 
> > Does anyone know why? 
> 
> It takes a long time to send a lot of email.  I suspect that between
> all the Debian mailing lists that Debian sends more email than some
> spamhauses.  It really takes a long time to send a lot of email on
> old, donated hardware.

Totally disagree.

Before MSBlaster & sobig.f made their appearance, the debian- lists
were responding very quickly.

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