mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread, DIE!)

Wed Aug 21 23:14:03 UTC 2002

At 12:09 AM +0200 2002/08/22, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>  I guess that if mail sent to the nanog list wouldnt take 5-60 minutes to
>  get delivered to all people on the list, people would sooner see that
>  someone else has actually answered the email in question, and wont answer
>  themselves.

	Show me the headers that demonstrate these delays.  On the 
message I am responding to, I see an end-to-end delay of just a few 
minutes, and that amount of time could easily be accounted for by 
your clock being slightly off from mine.

>  I remember this being discussed earlier, is there any perticular reason
>  why this hasnt been fixed? If nanog-l is supposed to be a list for
>  operational purposes, doesnt that require speedy delivery in a lot of
>  cases?

	For more details on the issues involved, read the following:

      Author: Rob Kolstad
        Title: Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists
        Pages: 195
    Publisher: USENIX
  Proceedings: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97)
         Date: October 26-31, 1997
     Location: San Diego, California
  Institution: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.


       Author: Strata Rose Chalup
       Author: Christine Hogan
       Author: Greg Kulosa
       Author: Bryan McDonald
       Author: Bryan Stansell
        Title: Drinking from the Fire(walls) Hose: Another Approach to 
Very Large Mailing Lists
        Pages: 317
    Publisher: USENIX
  Proceedings: Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98)
         Date: December 6-11, 1998
     Location: Boston, Massachusetts
  Institution: Global Networking and Computing, Inc.

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