On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:36:33AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? > > It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion > is long over by the time my response to the original message appears... > > Or is everyone seeing the same time delay? > by my calculations this delay corresponds to roughly what I would > expect if the list server was on Uranus.. > > For example here is a message posted at 18:00 yesterday evening, and > I received it back through the list at about 6:00am the following > morning. > > Looking at the headers, I seem to have received the original message > at 10:00GMT when it was sent at 21:00GMT the previous night. The first > reply was dated 01:00GMT, and I received it at 16:00GMT. That looks > like the first respondent was seeing a four hour delay.
The machine that handles lists (murphy.debian.org) was recently moved to a new colo, and got a new IP as a result. There were a large number of people who whitelisted or at least didn't behave as aggressively towards us, as they would towards normal mail servers. Since we've lost a number of those whitelisting due to a new IP, we're having difficulty delivering all the mail in a timely fashion. The mail queue seem to be going mostly down, but does occasionally go back up. We're trying to talk to some of the postmasters of the hosts that are affecting us the most. To make matters worse, we were blacklisted by spamcop for around 24h a couple of days ago, which made things worse. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
