Ah! Thanks for clearing the fog - I thought I remembered doing an approval
this morning - yet I seem to remember seeing the announcement last night
too - so I was confused.

But thanks for taking actions to "cure the disease" instead of "just
soothing the symptoms." Your clarity in the matters is greately
appreciated!

--Bruce

> All,
>
> Both were a matter of requiring approval.  I did the announce one last
> night,
> and discuss was done this morning.  Ben was not on the approved poster
> list for announce, hence its delay.  And announce was not an approved
> poster to discuss, hence the second delay.  I've now rectified both
> problems, so  things
> should be smoother from here on out.
>
> If any other chairs required posting approval, let me know.
> The list currently consists of myself, Bruce, Ben, and Paul.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:02:43 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Dawson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
>
>>>
>>> In a message dated: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:45:51 EDT
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>>
>>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> Errrr, you sent this at 23:45 LAST NIGHT?
>>> Why am I just now getting it at 10:30a.m. the next day?
>>>
>>> Sure, I'm willing to account for the fact that I wasn't around
>>> between 23:45 and 09:00 this morning, and that my laptop wasn't on.
>>> However, fetchmail *just* dropped this into my GNHLUG folder, which
>>> tells me that my ISP just received it at 10:26.
>>>
>>> Looking at the headers, this e-mail left itchy.ntisys.com at 23:45:55
>>> and was received by rogue.codemeta.com.  It then was received from
>>> rogue by rogue at 06:05:05.  So, it sat around on rogue for over 6
>>> hours?  Then it was sent from rogue back to rogue at 10:13:48, at
>>> which point it left rogue and made it to my ISP at 10:26:00?
>>>
>>> Bruce, I think your drain might be a little clogged :)
>>
>> It was "clogged" due to waiting approval, which I *think* I did
>> sometime this morning. All messages to the announce list must be
>> approved - and  I'm
>> one of the approvers. (Maybe Ben should be made one too!)
>>
>> One of the "clogging" contributors may be that if sendmail isn't able
>> to immediately connect to a recipient's SMTP server, then the message
>> goes back in the queue and is retried "later" - I don't remember when
>> that "later" is - but I seem to remember its a matter of hours.
>>
>> Beer Disclaimer: My memory is still somewhat foggy - I'm not sure if I
>> approved it last night or this morning - if anyone has evidence
>> contrary to the above statements, then I'm inclinded to believe them.
>> But please let me know so I can schedule time to sort though the log
>> files and put this "mail is slow" daemon to rest.
>>
>>
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