Re: Why the duplicate messages to pgsql-general?

Dennis Gearon wrote:

> I'm on the west coast, where does PG newsgroups reside?

Wherever they are, the path from one's mail client, over his smtp
server, to the mailing list server, to your IMAP account is not all the
Recieved: headers you see, it's the concatenated traceroutes over all
the Received: headers. Even if the servers are next door to you the
bit's might travel cross country and back.

Jan

>
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>> Dennis Gearon wrote:
>>
>>> I saw 14 hours between yesterday and today. Was the site down?
>>
>>
>> There was a lot down in northeast America - some still is, and it's not
>> just the mood. Could that power catastrophy have affected your delivery
>> times?
>>
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>>
>>> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, expect wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:23:34 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Uh, we do that so folks get the replies quicker.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Uh, why not get a better mail server? Seriously it seems that it
>>>>> really is
>>>>> very slow. Is it under powered? The software doesn't scale well?
>>>>> Or is it
>>>>> something else?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I periodically check my full message headers to make sure of speed, and
>>>> other then messages hat required moderator approval, delivery times
>>>> are <5
>>>> minutes ... what are you seeing?
>>>>
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>>>> TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
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>>>
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>>> TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
>>>
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org
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>>
>>
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> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

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