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 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A23A27.33B7D3DF.cygnus.gnu-win32@spidernet.com.cy> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (Win95; I) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 I have attached the original mail header: Received: from cygnus.com by mail0.spidernet.net (ElectricMail-MESSAGE-2.0-GAMMA-SSM1.1-ANTISPAM) id AA12787; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 06:25:58 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from daemon AT localhost) by cygnus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07673 for gnu-win32-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohreally.bbc.com (ohreally.bbc.com [198.175.187.25]) by cygnus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07668 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohreally.bbc.com (ohreally.bbc.com [198.175.187.25]) by ohreally.bbc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA08556 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:47:50 -0400 (EDT) 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. > -- > http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how > unreal > VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can > be." > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message > to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".