From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 13 13:10:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA06612 for current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:10:24 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06591 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:10:18 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id QAA11829; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:04:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:04:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Which CTM# == 2.0.5R? To: Terry Lambert cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9506131730.AA00943@cs.weber.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > I have noticed absurd propagation delays that weren't there before > the lists were sorted, the delays being only on some lists. huh!! > There is an 8 hour discrepancy betwwen hackers and questions in some > cases, whereas before at least I knew that the messages had come in > from each list were equally delayed. both hackers and questions are using bulk_mailer to distribute the messages. the delays should be similar. announce, hackers and questions are the only lists that are using bulk_mailer, they are the largest lists that freefall carries. the rest use sendmail with one-time sorted lists. > Possibly what is happening is that what you are seeing is the result > of having crossposted the message between hackers and current, so > you in effect are seeing the results of two mailings. yes, hackers and Current, not questions > Honestly, I was getting "OK" response times before, "Good" response > times after the list sort, and now I get a mix of "Great", "Good", > "OK", "Bad", and "Absolutely Abysmal" since the list split. each list has mixed response times, or a mix when comparing the lists? Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346