[REBOL] Fastest way to see new messages
From: Carl:rebol at: 10-Jul-2003 12:40
Just a reminder:
The fastest way to see new messages to this email list is to view them
a http://cobalt.reboltech.com/~lister Messages are posted shortly after
arrival at the server, so they don't suffer from the outgoing email delays.
With regard to those email delays, it appears that they are the result of
getting bottlenecked on slow responses from other servers. For example
right now there are six sendmail (mail delivery) subprocesses that are
probably going to timeout in a few minutes due to delays:
32663 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA21791 brainbyte.com.: user open
2216 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA02215 m1.dnsix.com.: user open
2776 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
2805 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
2890 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback02.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
3177 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA03175 brcceb.bariloche.com.ar.: user ope
Those six take half of the current allocation of sendmail delivery daemons.
Depending on the state of the connection, some of these may not timeout
for up to 10 minutes. In the meantime a few more incoming messages may
have been received, queuing another 500-2000 outgoing messages. And
that's without even considering the bounce and spam traffic that's also being
handled.
Over the last few years, the situation has gotten a lot worse due to spam.
IMHO, email is dead. Systems like IOS or AltME are the future for private
communication. For public communication, maybe we should add a
Blog to rebol.com? I investigated it last year, but was too busy to put it into
operation. Another method might be to add a Web form interface to this
discussion list.
-Carl
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