Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 99 22:14 GMT | From | (Martin Radford) | Subject | Re: More than 24 hours beteween send and receive on linux-kernel list |
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Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> wrote:
Hi there.
> Is it normal to get more than 24 hours between the time I send a > mail to the list a the time I get it back ?
My experience with ALL lists hosted on vger suggests that 36 hours is the standard...
I must admit that this is becoming a pain, but it's a circular problem. This list seems to be getting bogged down by about 10 people reporting each compilation failure (for example, when a #define is accidentally omitted). If there weren't such a huge lag with the list, people would see the first report and not bother to report it again.
So, we get more traffic on the list because it has a slow turnaround. And yes, I do realise that this list has some very special problems due to the quantity of traffic and number of subscribers. Maybe we need a separate "it doesn't compile" list hosted elsewhere to deal with this specific type of problem.
*Please* reply direct to me, and not the list. There's enough junk on the list already that doesn't belong.
Martin
(Sorry for the delay in responding to this. I seem to have received 400 mails from linux-kernel so far today, and I'm getting very behind.) -- Martin Radford | martin@zamenhof.demon.co.uk Registered Linux user #9257 - see http://counter.li.org -o) "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff /\\ on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V
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