From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T03:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-talk lag?

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:35:54AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> >Still, five minutes seems a bit long as a verified minimum time it  
> >took for a message to deliver out of a three-day sample, all things  
> >considered.
> 
> Obviously this doesn't apply if you are just posting to the list and  
> waiting to receive your message back, but part of the gateway  
> operation (the script that mirrors messages between newsgroup and  
> mailing list) is a cron job triggered every five minutes.  So, if you  
> post to the newsgroup side and it takes five minutes or more to hit  
> the mailing list, this would be expected behavior.

I haven't used the newsgroup side for either posting or receiving,
though.

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