Thanks Patrick; On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 08:55 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 22:02 -0500, William Case wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:50 -0500, William Case wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > > > > > > > > ** Just now, as I was typing this at 9:41 pm EST, I received 61 > > > fedora-list posts. Six or seven of the posts are current. The rest are > > > marked yesterday or two days ago and include all the posts I was looking > > > for. > > > > > > It doesn't make sense. > > > > It really doesn't make sense, this last post turned around and was sent > > back to me in 15 minutes. As well, when I checked closer, I am still > > missing a couple (a few) posts from Sunday and maybe Saturday. > > Bill, it may seem counterintuitive but it's perfectly legitimate for > mail to arrive out of order. There are no guarantees, even for the > ordering of messages sent between the same two addresses. > I do understand how email works and how it is forwarded from site to site sometimes taking a circuitous route. I am not expecting that it should follow in exact order. However, I belong to 11 mailing lists. Granted, none of the others has as much traffic as the fedora-list but none of them ever get blocked for two or three days like the fedora-list. And the instances of blockage/delay with fedora-list seems random. I can go several months with no problem. The blockage seems to be at the fedora-list or why else would I receive a block of 61 posts, some of the posts current and some two or three days old. It seems that this weekend fedora-list had about 200 messages. I received about 100 in the normal fashion throughout the weekend (i.e. in batches of 1-7 messages), then a block of 61 and then later an additional block of 35 late yesterday. The problem with these delays is not that I have email that is so important. It is that once I develop a feeling that I cannot trust the orderly exchange of mail, I find myself continually having to check the archive to see if my post arrived or if there has been a response. Also, I don't live in a remote area where I might expect physical interruptions or primitive service conditions. Gawd knows, I pay enough monthly to my local IP to expect good service. > That said, it's certainly not *usual*, so something seems to be going > on, but knowing exactly what means tracing the mail's path via its > headers. Take a look at the detailed header info of some delayed > messages (especially the timestamps) and you'll probably be able to > identify where the blockage is occurring. I tried that earlier and then the problem self-corrected. I will try again to trace the delay. Now that I have confirmation this may also be happening to other people, the effort might be worthwhile. -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
