I answer publicly, since this is something like a moderatly FAQ
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at
medanalytics.com> writes:
Marc> Question: Is it typical for messages posted to the R
Marc> help list to take on the order of 2.5 hours to be
Marc> transmitted to some subscribers after being sent?
yes, it is.
Marc> The reason that I ask is that I have posted to the
Marc> list twice today and it seems to take some time for my
Marc> post to get e-mailed back to me. In fact, I got a
Marc> reply tonight to one of my posts (on the F test query)
Marc> before I got a copy of my original post. This tells me
Marc> that at least some folks are getting my posts within a
Marc> reasonable period of time.
that's true: Those at the beginning of the list (and some others
with identical mail server) are getting things quickly; this
includes all of R-core on purpose.
Marc> I have noted other posts that I have gotten where the
Marc> time received is consistently some 2+ hours after the time sent.
other people have even longer delays... Note that there are
currently about 870 subscribers to R-help (plus ~170 to R-help-digest).
I still hope that this will be improved ``real soon now'' when
our mail server will get much more "power" dedicated to sendmail
and/or also by using a version of bulkmail..
on the other hand, it's not so bad if people get time to think
sometimes even before posting .. :-)
Your list maintainer,
Martin Maechler
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