Klarinet Archive - Posting 000405.txt from 1999/10

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re Oboe lyre
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 12:05:40 -0400

charette@-----.org wrote:

> >Audrey wrote:
> >I'll redirect this question to Mark. Can you explain why I received Mitch's
> >email late Wednesday night and yet earlier that day I received an email in
> >which someone else had already responded to Mitch? In other words, Mitch's
> >email went out much earlier, but only arrived to me late last night.
> >
> >Any answers, Mark?
>
> home.com was not responding to incoming mail for a good portion of yesterday.
>
> Ezmlm (the list software) works on a semi-quadratic backoff algorithm for unresponsive mail systems (the exact algorithm is buried somewhere in the code) so as to keep the mail system from becoming saturated with bouces and/or retries. In simpler language, it takes longer and longer between groups of retries. This makes messages come in out of order once your mail server comes back online - and helps keep it from going back down. It doesn't get a flood of messages all at once from sneezy once sneezy re-establishes contact.
>
> Mark C.

Thanks, Mark. I get it - not the part about the semi-quadratic backoff algorithm (???) but the important part for me- that home.com wasn't not responding to incoming mail.

Audrey

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