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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: -questions list speed.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713184505.1065A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31E7F369.50A3@ime.net>

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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:

> Is it normal for a message to take over an hour to make it's loop.

Hm.  I don't usually look at the timestamp on when my messages come back, 
but they usually start coming in while I'm still reading mail, so I'd say 
I get 15 minutes loop time if that.  

> Lets say I post a message to -questions, It's over an hour before
> I get my own message back on -questions. Is this normal.

> I would think it would be a couple minutes at most even though I
> am in Maine and FreeBSD.org is in Calif. (My home state)

Depends on load on the mail server and the intervening distribution systems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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