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From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital@singnet.com.sg>
Subject: RE: ORACLE-L list and latency (???)
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Dennis,

Good idea.  It is always good to write to a person directly if he
has an urgent situation.
Hemant

At 06:03 AM 20-06-02 -0800, you wrote:
>John, Alexandre
>         My theory is that fatcity uses the delay to prevent (or reduce) list
>users from using the group as a chat line. Given that they are providing
>this as a free service. When someone has an urgent problem, I try to copy
>them directly so they don't have to wait for a reply.
>Dennis Williams
>DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams@lifetouch.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:38 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>The same problem. Sometimes it takes up to 2 hours. :( My usual latency -
>30-60 min.
>
>To see where is the problem I wanted to take a look at the headers of my
>emails when it comes to the list, I have written to ORACLE-OWNER@fatcity.com
>and Postmaster@fatcity.com but my messages had bounced back due to timeout.
>8-( However, I know this email adresses are alive.
>Looks like our messages are stacked somewhere for a while.
>Are there others with the similar symptoms?
>
>--
>Alexandre
>
>PS: This is sent at 8:36 EST / 14:36 CET
>
>----- Original Message -----
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L@fatcity.com>
>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:18 PM
>
>
> > Many a time I have seen responses to an posting on the Oracle_L list
>appear
> > before I have seen the original post.
> > Yesterday I posted 2 replies, one at 15:35 and the other at 16:54. Both
>were
> > seen on the list at 17:10
> >
> > A 16 minute lag was the best I have ever seen as it normally appears to be
> > at least 1 hour for me.  In recent months I have posted from 3 different
> > sites and yet the lag always appears to be pretty high. Conversely when I
> > send e-mail from my work e-mail address externally then that is sent (and
> > received) almost immediately. I am reasonably certain that major delays
>are
> > not at this end so I was wondering what the delaying factors are that seem
> > to affect postings times.
> >
> > Any ideas anyone ?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > --
> > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
> > --
> > Author:
> >   INET: John.Hallas@vodafone.co.uk
> >
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>--
>Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
>--
>Author: Alexandre Gorbatchev
>   INET: alexandre.gorbatchev@avermann.de
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>Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS
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