From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 20:55:05 MDT
Damien writes:
> At 11:45 PM 5/29/03 +1000, I posted something that arrived back
> just before 1.00 am. This is fairly typical. Some other posters, a number
> of them in the USA, tell me they have the same lags. This is not good.
> Isn't there something that can be done to speed up the reposting? It's
> hard to have a lively conversation when one's instant retort takes more
> than an hour to be heard. (I know lists have an asynchronous dynamic,
> but this is additional and extremely irritating.)
Just to throw in my 2 cents I noticed that this got quite serious a couple
of months ago. I was frequently seeing not only long lags but also
reasonably
frequently (and probably unrelatedly messages were arriving out of sequence
at my then ISP). The message out of sequence probs seemed to be more to
do with spam attacks on that ISP overloading the PDS.
*I* haven't noticed the lags to be as much of a problem lately, but that may
just be that I've not been watching so closely. A couple of months back
I emailed around and found that three or four others in Oz were all getting
the long lags.
Could be that this is not a problem easily or cost effectively solved but it
would still be nice to understand the cause as that makes it easier to
separate out other possible communication probs which may be local to
particular posters and their ISPs.
Anyone know the cause of the lags?
Brett
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