From:	hgeleff AT spidernet DOT com DOT cy (Henrik Geleff)
Subject:	Re: Very slow propagation of mailing list?
14 Jun 1997 03:39:35 -0700 :
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This particular message took 8 hours to get to me and the major part of
that time was spent in the cygnus.com domain; but that does not
necessarily means that the problem is in the cygnus domain, problems in
mail transport can be caused by the inability of cygnus.com to find a
computer that is willing to receive the outgoing mail or a long queue of
outgoing mail.

The outgoing queue should be longer as new names have been popping up
with new issues.

Difficulty in finding a computer willing to receive a message happens to
any mail transport, it is just bad luck if somebody on the mailing list
is causing the problem.

Regards

Henrik Geleff

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Chris Faylor wrote:

> I've noticed that it sometimes takes more than 24 hours for my email
> to the mailing list to show up on the mailing list.  Looking at the
> submission times of all of the articles today it appears that I am not
>
> alone.
>
> I've also noticed that I get personal responses to email about 24
> hours
> after I've sent something.
>
> So the question is: Is there a reason why the gnu-win32 list is so
> slow?
> Is the Cygnus machine *incredibly* bogged down or is there some other
> bottleneck somewhere?  I don't notice this kind of delay in any of the
>
> other mailing lists to which I subscribe.
> --
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> unreal
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