Major Majordomo Problem

Wed Nov 11 04:22:00 GMT 1998

The gnu-win32 mailing list delivers messages about 2-3 days after they are sent,
which I have never seen from any other mailing list (in about 10 years of
subscribing to and maintaining mailing lists). If it were a moderated list, and
we were waiting for a moderator to peruse each message before forwarding it, I
could understand it.
However, this mailing list is unique in that messages seem to be cached for
several days on a Cygnus computer before being forwarded out in batches.
For example, the attached message from Christopher Faylor was sent Sunday at
7:00pm, but was not forwarded out of Cygnus' domain until Tuesday at 3:30pm,
after which it immediately appeared in my mailbox. Somewhere along the line it
got a timestamp of Monday. Why is this?
--Andrew Mickish
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In article <3.0.3.16.19981106180040.250fecd0.cygnus.gnu-win32@exmachina.net>,
John Mullee <john@exmachina.net> wrote:
>I get messages dated several days before present -
>is the list overloaded? what's going on?

Huh? Are you saying that you're seeing a backlog?
The gnu-win32 mailing list always runs with a backlog. It is
worse now due to the recent release of cygwin B20 and eCos.
The downloads of those two products are severely overloading
our T1 line.
--
cgf@cygnus.com
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