At 12:09 AM +0200 2002/08/22, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
I guess that if mail sent to the nanog list wouldnt take 5-60 minutes to get delivered to all people on the list, people would sooner see that someone else has actually answered the email in question, and wont answer themselves.
Show me the headers that demonstrate these delays. On the message I am responding to, I see an end-to-end delay of just a few minutes, and that amount of time could easily be accounted for by your clock being slightly off from mine.
I remember this being discussed earlier, is there any perticular reason why this hasnt been fixed? If nanog-l is supposed to be a list for operational purposes, doesnt that require speedy delivery in a lot of cases?
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