I had mentioned that I was waiting for a reply from the lists and never got ANY list mail until the day that I finally emailed Dag about my initial wiki page request. The same has just happened on the CentOS-devel lists. I now know that I can find these messages online however so I have been able to respond to people talking to me only because I see them on the website (lists.centos.org archives). I still have no email in my inbox for that mail list. Why does it take so long (3/4 days) from account creation and confirmation email to the point you actually receive list mail? Especially if you sign up to get a request made, which means that the request goes to the list days before you can recieve email from the list. You then miss all replies! Seems like this causes issues. Right now, had I not seen responses on the website to a request I made on the other list, I would have been again sending that list with unneeded messages asking for a response that I have already been given but that "I" never received in my inbox. Is anybody aware of this delay? Is that normal? If it is then is it posted anywhere that you should wait several days before sending questions to the list? If it is posted, I missed that in both sign up processes (docs and devel) if so, which is possible of course. :)
----------------------------------------> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:12:42 -0400 > From: ddreggors at cfl.rr.com > To: centos-docs at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS-docs] Initial list delay> > Why does it take so long (3/4 days) from account creation and > confirmation email to the point you actually receive list mail? >I don't think this issue is affecting everyone as I recently signed up for this list and have been receiving any message I post very quickly eg with in a minute or so. I've also not noticed any issues with mail from other posters. Have you got another email address you can test with a CentOS list or sign up for a free address and see if you still have issues? Also do you have any spam filtering which may be auto deleting some of the mail? -- Lalit Dhiri Linux the root to no GPFs _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos ? Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
David Dreggors wrote:> Why does it take so long (3/4 days) from account creation and > confirmation email to the point you actually receive list mail?It doesn't.> Especially if you sign up to get a request made, which means that the > request goes to the list days before you can recieve email from the > list. You then miss all replies!Don't sign up for the digest then.> Is anybody aware of this delay?There is no delay.> Is that normal?If you subscribe to get your mails in a daily digest: Yes, it is.> If it is then is it posted anywhere that you should wait several days > before sending questions to the list?As there is no such delay if you do *not* subscribe for the digest of the mailing lists ... Ralph PS: subscribe:May 11 02:23:19 2009 (1204) centos-devel: pending David Dreggors <xxxxxxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx> subscribe:May 11 02:23:59 2009 (1208) centos-devel: new (digest) David Dreggors <xxxxxxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx>, via web confirmation -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20090511/16ec4233/attachment-0001.sig>
Ralph Angenendt wrote:> David Dreggors wrote: >> Why does it take so long (3/4 days) from account creation and >> confirmation email to the point you actually receive list mail? > > It doesn't.It does "for me" and that was I guess what should have been my initial question. "Does anyone else see a delay?">> Especially if you sign up to get a request made, which means that the >> request goes to the list days before you can recieve email from the >> list. You then miss all replies! > > Don't sign up for the digest then.I misunderstood, I thought you had to. Mail lists are foreign to me.>> Is anybody aware of this delay? > > There is no delay.Maybe not for the rest of the world :) I just seem to find the hardest way to do things I guess.>> Is that normal? > > If you subscribe to get your mails in a daily digest: Yes, it is. > >> If it is then is it posted anywhere that you should wait several days >> before sending questions to the list? > > As there is no such delay if you do *not* subscribe for the digest of > the mailing lists ...OK, that makes some sense. I just thought you had to subscribe for the digest to get the responses from the list. I have never subscribed to mail lists before now so the concept is foreign to me.
> Don't sign up for the digest then. >> PS: > subscribe:May 11 02:23:19 2009 (1204) centos-devel: pending David Dreggors <xxxxxxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx> > subscribe:May 11 02:23:59 2009 (1208) centos-devel: new (digest) David Dreggors <xxxxxxxxx at xxxxxxxxxx>, via web confirmationThanks again, I just changed my settings to "no" on the daily digest.