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On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 20:03 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote:
In the specific order of posting isn't necessarily... erm, necessary. Several *hours* (and there have been 1 or 2 occasions when it's actually days) between a posting and it appearing are, in my opinion, a bit off. It certainly doesn't take that long to route the traffic, even if the actual message does go via Kuala Lumpur. So unless some messages are taking a bit of a scenic route via a mail relay server that is having an off day, it shouldn't happen. Anyone here that runs relay servers got any thoughts as to why this would/should/could happen?
You'd be surprised what a high volume of mail doesn't reach the most preferred mail exchanger first time, so that it's either sent off to the next highest MX or held for a retry later. I'd guess that it's 20%, others may have other ideas. Alex. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.