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

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Sue,
Thanks for the update, hooray for the list admin!

Guess I'm permanently stuck at the end of a chunk with slow mail servers.....

Cheers
Mike

Susan R. Keohan wrote:
> 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
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>>
>
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Mike Pokraka
Senior Consultant
Workflow Connections Ltd.
Mobile: +44 (0)7786 910 855