The lag time on SMTP list depends on three factors: (1) The volume of the traffic;
(2) When you registered (if you registered two years ago, for example, you receive mail in a large list before someone, say, who registered a month ago); (3) Various points of network congestion and delays. During peak times on this list, people who have recently registered have a one hour lag time to receive messages and it has little to do with ISPs, etc. Some simple math. (not completely accurate) ........ If there are 2000 people on the list and it takes 2 seconds to deliver a message, and you are at the end of the list, then it will take 1000 seconds to get mail, or 15 minutes to get mail. If any network congestion, then it could take an hour for some people at the end of the list (which you will not see if you are at the first of the list). Yesterday, during peak traffic, for people at the end of the list, the lag time was over one hour, easily measurable. Mr. Mountifield's message test was not (1) during peak traffic and (2) he ,may not have registered recently, because if he did, he would have seen the serialization lag time. Let's use this message, mornings are busy. I send it a 9:13 EST..... We will see when it returns. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:40 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Are there online forums instead ofthisemailforum?? In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition, the lag time between posting a message to this list and > having it delivered is a joke. I posted this message below at 2:35 > and it was delivered to me, a new subscriber, an hour later. My postings normally come back to me within a few minutes (my local box polls my POP3 accounts every 2 minutes). > I am sorry to say, but those on this list who are aggressively > advocating SMTP mail with a lag time on a hour, posting profanity, and > being impolite to other posters are not helping the Digium community. > These "shout down" replies are absolute nonsense and I, for one, am > surprised that Digium supports this type of nonsense support. Individuals' lack of courtesy or people skills is a completely independent issue from the preference for mailing lists or web forums. Suffice it to say that if there was a genuine preference amongst the majority for a web forum instead of a mailing list, there is more than enough skill and resources to make it happen. The fact that it hasn't happened might just say something. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users