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From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-24 01:58:50


William E. Kempf wrote:
> I've been noticing significant delays in posts. For instance, I received
> some posts on this list yesterday around 3:00 PM replying to posts I'd
> never seen. Those "missing" posts have just arrived in my mail box, a
> delay of 18 1/2 hours. This is not the only time I've witnessed this. Is
> anyone else having the same problems? Do we have an issue with the list
> server, or possibly with the gmane news bridge?

I see some delays too... for example, here's the headers of your messages as
received by me.
Received: from heart-of-gold.osl.iu.edu (heart-of-gold.osl.iu.edu
[129.79.245.244])
        by imap.cs.msu.su (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6NF5SFc003286
        for <ghost_at_[hidden]>; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:05:29 +0400 (MSD)
        (envelope-from boost-bounces_at_[hidden])
Received: from heart-of-gold.osl.iu.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
        by heart-of-gold.osl.iu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6NEXUC19673;
        Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:33:31 -0500

There's half an hour during which the message was kept by the list server --
a big delay, IMO. I experience the same delay almost always.

- Volodya


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