At 13:19 11/11/02 -0600, Dennis Duval wrote:
>> There is, on average, a 3 minute time to reach 80% of the subscribers.
>> 100% of the mail is delivered within 24 hours.  All of the delay past
>> 3 minutes is due to the recipient's mail system being down, broken, or
>> poor connectivity.
>
>Sorry, but I don't agree with these numbers.  I have found this list to be
>the slowest list of some 10 or so that I subscribe to, resulting in
>sometimes difficult discussions on this list.  Even the headers of the
>letter from your posting shows that bungi.com held it for nearly 10 minutes
>before sending it to my mail server, which has very good connectivity and
>availablity.  Often it takes 30 minutes or an hour to see my own postings to
>this list, which always leave my mail server with a few seconds of sending.

I don't post to this list very often, but I typically see delays of 15 to
30 minutes before seeing my own message come back, and our mail server
isn't down, broken, and doesn't have poor connectivity either ;-)

Regards,
Simon


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