Re: List Lag

[E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>]

On Saturday 01 December 2001 13:08, you wrote:
> No, this is new. In the past, I'd occasionaly receive a reply before the
> original post, but not often. Lately (in the past few weeks), it's happening
> with much greater frequency. I don't mind, but if something is wrong, I
> thought I'd point it out so that the people responsible for maintaining the
> list can get it fixed.

New to you maybe. However, it really does happen all the time, not just with 
RH lists.

I've even seen replies to MY mail before saw my question.

Think about. Mail arrives in an MTA's queue. If it can't send it immediately 
for any reason (maybe desitination doesn't resolve), it sits in the queue for 
however much time there is between queue runs.

Another item arrives for the same destination, the blockage has clears and 
the mail goes immediately.

Sometimes big items queued longer than smaller ones - forwarding priority is 
based on the mail's size.


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