Re: Mail delays (was Re: [Fwd: help building datetime from varchars])

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:22:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Shane D." <shane(dot)dawalt(at)wright(dot)edu> writes:
> > For months, particularly since February, I have been receiving e-mail
> > that is out-of-date.
>
> The particular example you show is not anything out of the ordinary:
> it looks to me like it's a nonmember submission that Marc didn't get
> around to approving for several days. The only solution would be to
> volunteer to help moderate the lists ...

There are a lot of duplicate emails on the postgresql lists, both two
copies sent at the same time and (I think, less often) mails being
resent after some time.

I'd assumed it was a known problem.

grep Message-ID Mail/pgsql-general | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -15
7 Message-ID:
2 Message-ID: <slrnc8fsnl(dot)soo(dot)rmunn(at)rmunnlfs(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
2 Message-ID: <Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)44(dot)0404281122420(dot)12294-100000(at)emo(dot)org(dot)tr>
2 Message-ID: <Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)33(dot)0403021406090(dot)4475-100000(at)css120(dot)ihs(dot)com>
2 Message-ID: <Pine(dot)BSO(dot)4(dot)56(dot)0404261333510(dot)26968(at)leary(dot)csoft(dot)net>
2 Message-ID: <OF539ADD90(dot)E493F3D8-ONC1256E4C(dot)00449B72-C1256E4C(dot)00449C9C(at)beauchamp(dot)loxane(dot)fr>
2 Message-ID: <NGEEJJBKDBJKFGILNCLPGEKLCDAA(dot)public(at)thesofa(dot)de>
2 Message-ID: <E1CF34F4AA445E47990786EEED7BE6DC603AEE(at)ems9(dot)uwsp(dot)edu>
2 Message-ID: <D90A5A6C612A39408103E6ECDD77B829408D6D(at)voyager(dot)corporate(dot)connx(dot)com>
2 Message-ID: <c9ke9015ilkb530p9tj5tte2c4fu1fe51o(at)email(dot)aon(dot)at>
2 Message-ID: <BCB93AEE(dot)1052D%hierophant(at)pcisys(dot)net>
2 Message-ID: <BCB28CE1(dot)46823%scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
2 Message-ID: <BAY17-F42gPasSmz6Uu000e5795(at)hotmail(dot)com>
2 Message-ID: <871xoceat5(dot)fsf(at)stark(dot)xeocode(dot)com>
2 Message-ID: <71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A256832801057916(at)loki(dot)wc(dot)globexplorer(dot)net>

I'm happy to provide more data if needed.

Cheers,
Steve