Re: Very long delay posting to php-general (might be OT)

On Tue, May 24, 2005 3:32 pm, Marek Kilimajer said: > Andy Pieters wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I was wondering if it is normal that when posting to the php-general >> list >> there is always a very long delay before messages are shown. >> >> It's not like with snail mail. Sending mail messages is instant so >> where is >> the delay? > > I think John Nichel took over the job of filtering the list of spam :) I don't think that happened (at least not yet...) But things to consider: There must be some kind of automated spam-filtering going on. Or we'd be awash in spam. PHP's servers are donated, and the load must be enormous. It's not *THAT* bad a lag -- It's a mailing list, for Pete's sake. Posts are gatewayed to/from the newsgroup. That might introduce some inherent lag as duplicates are culled or something... I don't know WHY posts take hours to get through, but I'm not honestly seeing it as a "problem" personally. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm