Re: FLASH: OT: list lag?

[List Owner]

At 20:44 21/10/99 -0700, Cheri Harder wrote:

>OK, will assume it is "list" oriented then, and likely caused by the

>increased traffic, so don't anybody else answer me or I will be the cause of

>even more unneeded traffic!   Sorry, Sam!


No problem...it does happen from time-to-time...let me explain...


Message A turns up at chinwag and gets processed and re-sent to everyone on

the flasher list. To speed delivery the output queue is chopped up into

small pieces so that one failed email address doesn't delay the whole queue

unduly. What can happen, is that the little chunk your email address falls

into can get held up by a bouncing email address.


This is why some addresses get affected and others don't. I weed the list

pretty much everyday to take out addresses which are continuously bouncing,

but it's not always easy to tell whether it's a temporary problem or that

address is no longer valid. Hope this explains things.


The date on each message _should_ in most cases be in the right order, so

if you sort by date (I think) you should get the messages in the order in

which they arrived at Chinwag. Naturally, this relies on folks setting

their dates and times correctly.


Toodle Pip


Sam



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