I have always presumed that *everyone* was subject to
typically-at-least-one-hour delay. Is there anyone out there that gets
emails from this list in near real time ? If so, what are you doing
differently from the rest of us?

/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006

On Nov 26, 2007 11:44 AM, Perry Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I also experience the "hour or so" response time getting emails from
> this list.  I would love to see this situation remedied.
>
> Perry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [U2] Time Travel
>
> I have to add my two bits. Okay, I don't 'have' to...
>
> I use the exact same email group software (majordomo 1.94.5) on my
> 'home'
> system with over 7000 subscribers to over 180 different email groups.
> Our
> groups never see the delays the members of this group see, so with all
> due
> respect, there's something different happening that's causing the lags.
> We
> often see as many as 200 emails a second going out of our server, which
> is
> an 800mghz PIII with 120GB disk, no mirroring (I know, bad idea) and
> running fedora core 4 (old...). Our group members get their emails back
> within seconds, literally. I send an email to this group, and it
> sometimes
> takes an hour or so before I see it come back to me. I send an email to
> one of my groups at home, and I get it back within seconds.
>
> Now then, with that said, I've also added bulk_mailer to my email group
> server so maybe that speeds things up a great deal. I don't know. I did
> it
> so I would quit getting the annoying 'too many email connections from
> your
> server' errors I see from aol, hotmail, msn, yahoo, netscape, netzero,
> juno, gmail, . . . ad infinitum of the 'big' email hosts.
>
> My point? none really, other than to show that Charles' nice numerically
> explained _time travel_ doesn't match my real-life experience with my
> own
> majordomo server...
>
> I don't know why, they just aren't the same.
>
> Karl
>
> <quote who="Symeon Breen">
> > Or upgrade to a forum based group - just my standard gripe about email
> > lists   ;)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moderator
> > Sent: 26 November 2007 06:03
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [U2] Time Travel
> >
> > To fix this problem, you'd have to
> > redesign the methods under which the internet manages and routes mail.
> >
> >     - Charles Barouch, Moderator
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