[Asterisk-Users] Re: Are there online forums instead ofthisemailforum??

[Steve Underwood]

You missed:

(4) the server overload caused by people who don't like e-mail lists 
telling the people who are perfectly happy with them they are fools. 
Wait a moment. I've got it. All these pro-web-forum messages are 1st 
April posts, aren't they? :-)

Regards,
Steve


Tim Bass wrote:

>The lag time on SMTP list depends on three factors:
>
>(1)  The volume of the traffic; 
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>(2)  When you registered (if you registered two years ago, for example, you
>receive mail in a large list before someone, say, who registered a month
>ago);
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>(3)  Various points of network congestion and delays.
>
>During peak times on this list, people who have recently registered have a
>one hour lag time to receive messages and it has little to do with ISPs,
>etc.  
>
>Some simple math. (not completely accurate) ........ If there are 2000
>people on the list and it takes 2 seconds to deliver a message, and you are
>at the end of the list, then it will take 1000 seconds to get mail, or 15
>minutes to get mail.    If any network congestion, then it could take an
>hour for some people at the end of the list (which you will not see if you
>are at the first of the list).
>
>Yesterday, during peak traffic, for people at the end of the list, the lag
>time was over one hour, easily measurable.  Mr. Mountifield's message test
>was not (1) during peak traffic and (2) he ,may not have registered
>recently, because if he did, he would have seen the serialization lag time.
>
>Let's use this message, mornings are busy.  I send it a 9:13 EST..... We
>will see when it returns.
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