Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod <jda3 at njit.edu> writes: > I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but the mailing list itself > seems to be rather much of a pain in the ass. The mail client I use checks > for new messages from my mail server once every 60 seconds. Often I find > that the messages from this list come to me in the wrong orders. Say right > now I just received a message from 10:40 PM, when not 5 minutes ago I > received the response to the specific question written at 10:45 PM. Why > would the list send the response to me before even sending me the original > message? Because the first attempt to send the message failed. So it got deferred, and during the deferral, the response came in, and the first attempt to sent *it* succeeded. > And often I write a message to the list and it doesn't arrive in my mailbox > for at least 20 minutes. Sounds like you have a very busy mail server. Mine is that busy once a month, on the 15th (70,000 copy newsletter distribution in progress), but the rest of the time it's quite idle and moves mail quite fast. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>