Mail list delays

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> I haven't timed a message recently, but I suspect the multi-day
> delay problem should be much better now.

Yes, it's much better. On the other hand...

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            Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:54:46 +0200 (MET-DST)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:14:10 +0200 (MET DST)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Subject: include/typeinfo bootstrap failure for current CVS
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...and our site is quite well connected, so I would tend to think that
this is not that unusual (though today the delay was sometimes much 
less).

> Hopefully the recent changes are enough to keep things from getting too
> bad before we can put the long term fixes in place. 

IMHO a delay of 36 hours is quite unfortunate.

In this case, for example, I received at least four or five different
reports describing exactly the same problem between having sent my own
report and receiving it back from the list. 

Gerald

PS: Clearly this is not to bash you, Jeff, Cygnus or your admin staff!
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
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