Steven Trovato wrote:
> OK, so I responded to two different messages on this list. I sent
> them three minutes apart. I received one from the list about 10-15
> minutes later. The other didn't show up for 30-45 minutes. Can
> anyone explain to me why this is? What is causing such a long delay?
> I'm sending this one at 7:10pm Eastern Time. Now we'll see if
> everyone gets this at 7:11pm just to make a liar out of me. :-)
No, you are not imagining things, there can be some long delays in mail
getting sent out from
the server. At the moment the bottleneck seems to be mostly software
related. The program
that translates between IP addresses and names is not responding as
quickly as it should. And
with all the lists and all the addresses hostname lookups are a major
factor in the Team.Net
mailing list software.
I'm looking into it. Come the spring fund drive I may specifically
request assistance with a new
machine to run the nameserver, the current one is getting a bit long in
the tooth. Donate
early, donate often ;-)
I may be able to improve things a bit later this week, we shall see. At
least the mail does
eventually go through. Using something like http://www.team.net/forums
would not have
this issue, but a lot of folks prefer email.
mjb.
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