Mailman response time...and Googling!!!!

[Susan R. Keohan]

Hi all,

Regarding Mailman processing time... here is the official answer:
> Mailman breaks a listing into "chunks", and then runs through all of
> the chunks at the same time.  Each chunk, however, is processed one
> address at a time.   Some mail servers are slow to answer, so the
> people towards the end of a chunk will be waiting until all the people
> before them in the chunk have been mailed.    This can certainly cause
> delays of 15-20 minutes if there are problematic mail servers in the
> list.  

And now for something wonderful...

If you go to Google, and use the prefix 'site:mailman.mit.edu sap-wug' (followed by your topic of 
interest), Google will now return a list of messages posted to SAP-WUG.

Alan ?  Can you update your SDN site to include this prefix ?  I can re-instate the link to SDN...

Hurray for the MIT Mailman gurus!  Hurray for Google!

Susan R. Keohan wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> I feel your pain.  There is nothing I personally can do, but I'll see 
> what I can find out.
> 
> Meanwhile, I continue to be frustrated with Google dropping us.  I've 
> registered our 'site'
> (http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/sap-wug/) with Google and even read 
> the docu, but to no avail.
> 
> Anybody with bright ideas out there should contact me directly (no sense 
> clogging up the WUG) at keohan at ll.mit.edu.
> 
> Mike Pokraka wrote:
> 
>> Whilst we're on the 'on a different note' topic - can Mailman be speeded
>> up? Or am I the only one seeing 15-25 minute delays in postings?
>>
>> Mike Pokraka
>> Senior Consultant
>> Workflow Connections Ltd.
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