Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
HiThe 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 email addresses to dig down the problem.Does anyone experience a similar problem?I contacted the tech support of my news server provider and they say that it is not their problem but is due to the fact that l.d.u is a moderated group. I would like to know how far this is true? If it is infact the reason, is there anyway to overcome this problem? I really like the newsgroups interface than mailing list interface and would like to use it had it not been for this message delaying problem. Any ideas are welcome.thanks in advance raju Below is the conversation between the tech support and me. At 14:15 -0400 2005-05-23, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
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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.
I have noticed however that it does seem to be slower on newsgroups than using the mailing list directly. (I'm not sure on the working of NNTP, but this is how I figured it worked) The messages have to get back to whereever they need to go to get their way onto their list. If the server is being hammered at the time the nntp->smtp gateway may take some time to get your message sent out. Then once the message HAS hit the mailing list, the NNTP server then has to fetch that again and pass it all the way back to your ISP's server. All of this is obviously going to take time (possibly 6 steps instead of 3 if you get what I mean).
Like I said, I'm not sure on how NNTP/mailing list mixes work, but that's just how I figured it and since I don't use newsgroups myself for reading the list it's never overly bothered me.
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