Re: list delay

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, January 31, 2003 11:15, Michael Wardle wrote: > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. As Nathan and others pointed out, there was an unusually high amount of Internet traffic aroun

Re: list delay

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > | On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > | "At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the > | reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Which is why many Canadian stores dealing with American currency advise > customers that they would be usually further ahead to use debit or > credit cards and hopefully take advantage of the card issuer's bulk > currency exchange rat

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 01:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:57:09PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > That's almost funny. Around here, Canadian coins (quaters, dimes, > > nickels, pennies) are treated as equal to US coins by people and > > cashiers. (vending machines won'

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:57:09PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > That's almost funny. Around here, Canadian coins (quaters, dimes, > nickels, pennies) are treated as equal to US coins by people and > cashiers. (vending machines won't take Canadian, though) I can't > speak for the local b

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: | On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | "At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the | reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds. SPI is currently | evaluating the possibility of ope

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:59:59 +1100 bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be due to circumstances at the time. I've been subscribed for a few > months now and I find that my messages are returned at any time between a > minute and a couple of hours maximum. Possible postfix problem

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: "At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds. SPI is currently evaluating the possibility of opening an account in a Canadian bank. " :/ Then again, i've always been

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in > > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm > > sure donations will be accepted :-) > > WellI will be the first to step up to the plate!

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0800, nate wrote: > some additional data. redhat's user list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has > been pretty responsive recently, but today it seems to have stalled, Really? I've always gotten better responses out of debian-user. *duck* -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PRO

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0900, Andy wrote: | > OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in | > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm | > sure donations will be accepted :-) | | WellI will be the first to step up to the plate!

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Andy
> OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm > sure donations will be accepted :-) WellI will be the first to step up to the plate! I will donate $100 (US) right NOW! It is the least I can do c

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
Narins, Josh wrote: >DEAR DEBIAN USER, this is joke e-mail. I think. > >We are manipulating the time in the headers >in order to cover the tracks from our efforts >to monitor the e-amail from sketchy users >such as yourself >to prevent them from posting rude or obnoxious e-mails > >We've noted you

RE: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Narins, Josh
DEAR DEBIAN USER, this is joke e-mail. I think. We are manipulating the time in the headers in order to cover the tracks from our efforts to monitor the e-amail from sketchy users such as yourself to prevent them from posting rude or obnoxious e-mails We've noted your peculair penchant for postin

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread nate
Sean Burlington said: >> No offense, but I seriously doubt that last Friday and Saturday you were >> getting replies in under a minute from any mailing list. >> > > no but I have since monday some additional data. redhat's user list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been pretty responsive recently, but tod

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:51:28PM +, Sean Burlington wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > > >Say, do those other mailing lists (why would you need other lists?? > >:-) apply spamfilter to every message? > > some do some don't - but this is by far the slowest list I can > remember subscribing to

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Sean Burlington
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:37:09PM +, Sean Burlington wrote: mail does seem to get stuck on the mailserver at debian for a couple of hours Sometimes, but not all the time. Thus, we can conclude that this is not a constant problem. so it's probably not down to t

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:37:09PM +, Sean Burlington wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: [ snip ] > >I'm sure if someone donated a more powerful machine and more > >bandwidth, it would help. > > > >I've some opinions for slowness: > > > >1) Overall crappiness of the Internet due to the exploit du

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Sean Burlington
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote: Hi I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been sent. Among

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:15:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > Hi > > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. Among other things, this typically results in several identical > responses to a

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > > sent. Among other

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:15, Michael Wardle wrote: > Hi > > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. Among other things, this typically results in several identical > responses to a question, as su

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:15:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. You must be new to the Internet. Email and news have no gauranteed delivery time. Be

Re: list delay

2003-01-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:15:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: | I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I | receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been | sent. It varies over time. Sometimes the list is processed very rapidly, and sometimes there

Re: list delay

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote: > Hi > > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. Among other things, this typically results in several identical > responses to a ques