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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:12:30 -0400
From:      Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: -questions list speed.
Message-ID:  <31E9004E.1F08@ime.net>
References:  <199607141133.NAA21801@allegro.lemis.de>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Gary Chrysler writes:
> >
> > Is it normal for a message to take over an hour to make it's loop.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> No, I'd say it's relatively fast.
> 
> > 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)
> 
> It's not the time between California and Maine that takes up the time.
> It's the number of messages that are being handled concurrently on
> freefall, and the way that sendmail works: it tries each destination
> sequentially, and there are bound to be some that aren't responding.
> By the time sendmail gets round to you, hours could have passed.
> 
> Greg

Awe, Ok.

-Enjoy
Gary
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