From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 18:46:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19144 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19135 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA01075; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:46:11 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:46:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gary Chrysler cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: -questions list speed. In-Reply-To: <31E7F369.50A3@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Is it normal for a message to take over an hour to make it's loop. Hm. I don't usually look at the timestamp on when my messages come back, but they usually start coming in while I'm still reading mail, so I'd say I get 15 minutes loop time if that. > Lets say I post a message to -questions, It's over an hour before > I get my own message back on -questions. Is this normal. > I would think it would be a couple minutes at most even though I > am in Maine and FreeBSD.org is in Calif. (My home state) Depends on load on the mail server and the intervening distribution systems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major