Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 05/25/05 03:28

On Tue, May 24, 2005 3:32 pm, Marek Kilimajer said:
> Andy Pieters wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I was wondering if it is normal that when posting to the php-general
>> list
>> there is always a very long delay before messages are shown.
>>
>> It's not like with snail mail. Sending mail messages is instant so
>> where is
>> the delay?
>
> I think John Nichel took over the job of filtering the list of spam :)

I don't think that happened (at least not yet...)

But things to consider:

There must be some kind of automated spam-filtering going on. Or we'd be
awash in spam.

PHP's servers are donated, and the load must be enormous.

It's not *THAT* bad a lag -- It's a mailing list, for Pete's sake.

Posts are gatewayed to/from the newsgroup. That might introduce some
inherent lag as duplicates are culled or something...

I don't know WHY posts take hours to get through, but I'm not honestly
seeing it as a "problem" personally.

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