[13835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Building a moderated nanog (was Re: hm..)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Tue Nov 18 10:35:31 1997
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: jamie@intuition.iagnet.net
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 09:24:48 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199711181255.HAA02409@intuition.iagnet.net> from "James Rishaw" at Nov 18, 97 07:55:16 am
James Rishaw busts through the QRM with...
> Something else that needs to be considered is blowing up the list (making
> smaller, distributed lists). It takes hours sometimes for mail to go through
> the distribution.
>
> Sometimes, I'll post, and I'll get four, five, six replies before I see my
> post to the list bounce back this way. It takes hours. :-( Too long for a
> list where sometimes time-critical information is discussed.
A six hour delay because the list of addressess is too large? That would
take tens or hundreds of thousands of addressess, or else some precisely
paced queueing logic, or a pathetically overloaded machine.
I vote for Tim Ramsey setting things up on his Listserv server, if for no
other reason than to just evaluate how well it works. Let's give it a try
for a while.
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