Delay between posting and receiving on this list

Alain Fischer squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Wed Sep 11 20:18:18 UTC 2002


Thanks for all responses received.
I have in fact subscribed with another email addresse.
And I will try now if it's better with the subsribed one.


Le Mercredi 11 septembre 2002, =E0 11:35 , Steve Elkins a =E9crit :

> Alain Fischer <alain.fischer at bluewin.ch> writes:
>
>> Every time I post message on this list, I see a big delay (3-4 hour)
>> between the time I post a message to the list and the time I receive
>> my message from the list. By example, I have posted a message
>> at 10 Sep 2002 20:28:00 +0200 (18:28 GMT) but have still not seen
>> my message on the list now (23:56 +0200 or 21:56 GMT).
>
> It could be worse.  I think the likeliest reason this occurs is that
>
>    alain.fischer at bluewin.ch
>
> isn't subscribed to squeak-dev.  Messages from unsubscribed email
> addresses require approval from one of the mailing list admins, and
> therefore may wait in the queue for even longer than 3-4 hours.  A
> disadvantage of human spam filters.
>
>> It seem this is not the case for everybody on the list.
>
> Messages from subscribed readers don't require approval.
>
>> Did someone else see also this strange behavior or is it just me ?
>
> There are other regular Squeak list writers who aren't subscribed.
>
>> Could someone sugest a mean to change this ?
>
> Well, subscribing will do it, of course.  I think some people don't
> want to receive as much email as the list generates, but if you can
> put up with it, that's the simplest solution.  http://www.gmane.org/
> is another possibility.  Squeak is out there, known as
>
>    gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steve
>
> --
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> 	because they use more manure.
>
>




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