Re: Wierd latency problems with the list?

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert !

Don't forget about the Archives on the Midrange Web Site !!!

David has done a GREAT job with that and it reduces the need to keep so much 
e-mail local !

Chuck

"Robert E. Burger" wrote:

> David,
>
> I hadn't really thought about the weather issue since it's been ridiuously 
>nice here (Dallas/Fort Worth) until yesterday.  I was
> just feeling some guilt about the dupe postings bith in Midrange and COBOL.  
>Thanks for hosting the lists...  They'd saved my
> bacon more times than I can count.  As a matter of fact I had a big hissy fit 
>a few days ago because while in the process of
> archiving a bunch of e-mail I accidentally deleted about 35,000 messages from 
>MIDRANGE.  I loved having them on hand because I
> always serached the existing messages for answers to the problem at hand and 
>then posted a message if I couldn't fin a previous
> thread that addressed it.
>
> --Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 6:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Wierd latency problems with the list?
>
> > At 02:31 AM 01/27/2000 , Robert E. Burger wrote:
> > >I appologize for the dup posting on multiple attachments with SNDDST.  The
> > >message that appeared on the list most recently was sent at 8AM.  Since it
> > >hadn't shown up when I looked tonight, I resent it at 10:54PM with a
> > >slightly different subject line.  The later submission showed up on the
> > >list with a time of 12:17AM and the earlier posting showed up with a time
> > >of 1:02AM.  Something just isn't right in Internet-land!
> >
> > Dean's response could account for a lot of the problems this week ... but
> > another reason for the slow response in general boils down to computing
> > power :(
> >
> > The system that hosts the mailing lists is a AMD K5 166 ... while that used
> > to be quite adequate to process the lists, it's being asked to do a LOT
> > more now than it used to.
> >
> > I'm currently looking to upgrade the system to a lower end P II ... right
> > now it's just waiting on a check from amazon.com :)
> >
> > david
>
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