From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Jeffrey A Law Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Mail list delays Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:57:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <23568.892620968@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00613.html 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... Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.cygnus.com [205.180.230.5]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13683; 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 Message-ID: ...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! -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/