posting speed

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> From: "Tony Alfrey" <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>
>> 
>> Ric Moore wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 08:02 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> >> What controls the time elapsed between when I post a message or a reply 
>> >> to a message and when it actually appears?
>> >> Thanks.
>> >
>> > God.
>> 
>> Hmmmm...that explains why my posts are slow.  I thought it had to do
>> with that bald guy in Panama.

>Any chance we could get a somewhat more earthly explanation of this
>phenomenon? Sometimes my posts don't show up for hours. While others (e.g.
>Lonni) seem to always have theirs show up immediately.

Check the Received: headers in the messages that are slow to see
where the delay occurs.

One way for messages to be delayed is that they get forwarded to
the list manager for approval which can because of high spam
scoring from spamassassin, or other filters on the list.

Bill
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