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Re: mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread, DIE!)


From: Dave Stewart <dbs () dbscom com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:19:30 -0400


At 12:09 AM 8/22/2002, Chris Adams wrote:

Once upon a time, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles () skynet be> said:
>       Show me the headers that demonstrate these delays.  On the
> message I am responding to, I see an end-to-end delay of just a few
> minutes, and that amount of time could easily be accounted for by
> your clock being slightly off from mine.

Well, on the thread in question, my response took 15 minutes to get back
to me (well, 15:06 to be precise).  That is by far the largest RTT for a
list that I've posted to lately (not counting lists with servers down,
etc.).

Headers show it took 50 seconds for my last post to make it here.


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