[51206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Wed Aug 21 19:41:39 2002
In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0208220005280.1498-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:14:03 +0200
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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?
For more details on the issues involved, read the following:
Author: Rob Kolstad
Title: Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists
Pages: 195
Publisher: USENIX
Proceedings: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97)
Date: October 26-31, 1997
Location: San Diego, California
Institution: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Author: Strata Rose Chalup
Author: Christine Hogan
Author: Greg Kulosa
Author: Bryan McDonald
Author: Bryan Stansell
Title: Drinking from the Fire(walls) Hose: Another Approach to
Very Large Mailing Lists
Pages: 317
Publisher: USENIX
Proceedings: Twelfth Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98)
Date: December 6-11, 1998
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Institution: Global Networking and Computing, Inc.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w---
O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++)
tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
