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  • Subject: Re: List turnaround speed
  • From: Quazy <quazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:18:31 -0600

I would say that is has improved, It used to take hours for me to se mine, 
now it is usuall between 30 and 60 minutes.

But this is still very slow compared to other list groups that I am on. 
most only take 5 to 10 minutes.


At 03:05 PM 1/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I think it's *definitely* a YMMV proposition.  The turnaround time I see
>hasn't changed that much - some days are better than others.
>
>But I will say that, more than just a few times, I've seen Leif's replies to
>posts that haven't even hit my inbox yet.  I think he must have a direct
>connection to the mail server.  Must be one of those MI servlets he 
>writes. <g>
>
>Dan Bale
>IT - AS/400
>Handleman Company
>248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>
>-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
>Bob,
>
>I think that the "hours" is the exception to the rule..usually it's a
>fairly acceptable amount of time
>
>On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Bob Crothers wrote:
>
> > Am I the only one who has noticed a dramatic improvement in the time 
> between
> > when you send a post to Midrange-L, and when it actually gets sent out?
> >
> > My post about fax systems arrived only 19 minutes after I sent it.  In the
> > past, it has taken hours.
> >
> > Has the list engine been changed so it does its own SMTP instead of 
> relaying
> > to the ISP?  Or has something else changed?  Or did I just get lucky?
> >
> > Bob Crothers
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