Klarinet Archive - Posting 000749.txt from 1997/04

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Our new listserver is S L O W
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 04:22:05 -0400

> As much as I hated the address business with the old listserver, most of
> the time it was really fast. I manage our mail system here and could see
> from the logs that most messages I posted to the old klarinet listserver
> were broadcast only seconds after they left our system.

Arf arf arf.

> Now we seem to have a delay of more than 90 minutes. This certainly slows
> down discussions.

So the new listserver is spreading the pain equally, is it.

I signed off for a while, because the listserv mechanism was getting
completely silly. It may well have worked within the USA where stuff
never got out onto the listserv mechanism, but mail to me came through
European listserv gateways which seem to be totally unreliable.

I *manage* a list in Germany (300 miles from here, perhaps):
occasionally I get delays of as much as a week, and regularly I get
delays of a day or more.

Robin