mailing list message delays

[Satish Balay]

Even if its a problem with our list server - we can't do much about
it. We have to migrate to a new list server anyway - so perhaps that
will improve on this.

Satish

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jed Brown wrote:

> I observe that some messages from the PETSc lists (both -users and
> -dev) are delivered immediately and some are delivered around an hour
> late.  This can be somewhat confusing when messages come wildly out of
> order and occasionally leads to redundant responses.  I haven't
> noticed any logic as to which messages are delayed.  While strict
> order-preservation is obviously not possible, is there anything that
> can be done (easily, don't waste time on it) about the huge seemingly
> random delays?  (I don't see this behavior from any other lists.)
> 
> Jed
> 
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