From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 07:13:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13362 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 07:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net ([204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13352 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 07:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-16.ime.net [206.231.148.145]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA11629; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:12:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31E9004E.1F08@ime.net> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:12:30 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: -questions list speed. References: <199607141133.NAA21801@allegro.lemis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848