Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 13:20:59 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dawes@physics.usyd.edu.au, jmb@kryten.atinc.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailing lists Message-ID: <199506010320.NAA17838@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> I've noticed for a while now that the mail I receive from hackers comes >>> via munnari.oz.au rather than directly from freefall. When I looked >>> into this, I found that mail I sent to myself from freefall (both to >>> here and to a few other domains in .au) also came via munnari. I'd >>> assumed that this was setup to allow all mailing list traffic to >>> .au to go from one connection from freefall. Was this intentional? Do Yes, it was to get the foreign site to do more of the work. >>> others in .au see this? We certainly don't have an MX pointing to that >>> site. The down side of this from my point of view is that >>> munnari.oz.au often has a long mail queue, and it isn't unusual for the >> >>strange the mail logs on freefall show: I complained about this too. munnari often delayed 12-24 hours and I got direct replies to some of my mail before I got the indirect echo from freefall via munnari. >It looks like it is back to delivering directly. I must admit that I It was stopped when the big relay sites (ENUNET ...) complained. Bruce
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