From: mickish AT cmu DOT edu (Andrew Mickish)
Subject: Re: Major Majordomo Problem
11 Nov 1998 20:00:47 -0800
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The gnu-win32 mailing list delivers messages about 2-3 days after they are sent,
which I have never seen from any other mailing list (in about 10 years of
subscribing to and maintaining mailing lists).  If it were a moderated list, and
we were waiting for a moderator to peruse each message before forwarding it, I
could understand it.

However, this mailing list is unique in that messages seem to be cached for
several days on a Cygnus computer before being forwarded out in batches.

For example, the attached message from Christopher Faylor was sent Sunday at
7:00pm, but was not forwarded out of Cygnus' domain until Tuesday at 3:30pm,
after which it immediately appeared in my mailbox. Somewhere along the line it
got a timestamp of Monday.  Why is this?

--Andrew Mickish


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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 16 DOT 19981106180040 DOT 250fecd0 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT exmachina DOT net>,
John Mullee <john AT exmachina DOT net> wrote:
>I get messages dated several days before present -
>is the list overloaded? what's going on?

Huh?  Are you saying that you're seeing a backlog?

The gnu-win32 mailing list always runs with a backlog.  It is
worse now due to the recent release of cygwin B20 and eCos.
The downloads of those two products are severely overloading
our T1 line.
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