Delays on this mailing list

[Charles Malespin]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 20:49 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Every once in a while I notice that a handful of mail arrives on this
> list a day or two late.  This happened again tonight.  I added part of
> the header from one here:
> 
> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com)
> 	by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52)
> 	id 1F1bcb-0007p9-0W; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:47:01 +0000
> Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk ([212.23.3.141])
> 	by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 			
> 1F0gxD-0007qP-IW
> 	for ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:16:33
>         +0000
> 
> You can see the delay is over 48 hours.  Anyone know what is causing
> this?  This could mean that someone is waiting a long time for help.
> 


This happens to me ALL the time.  I use Evolution to get this list from
a gmail account and almost every two or three days I will get 10-15
emails that were from the past few days before show up out of nowhere.