On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 14:54, Jack Campin wrote:

> Did you only just get that message?  If so it must have been held
> up somewhere for a record time.  Pity email messages don't get grubby
> marks like paper envelopes do - I've heard of one envelope that took
> a year to get through the New Zealand post office and arrived with a
> scoresheet for a card game written on the back.  My message could have
> been quarantined by MI5 on suspicion of being in an al-Qaeda code and
> you'd never know.

  It takes 3 minutes for the list server to send a message to every
subscriber on the Scots-L list, not including bounced messages and mail
servers on the other end that are unavailable. I have timed it. :-)

Toby


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