Delays on this mailing list

[William Grant]

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Charles Malespin wrote:
> 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.  

This also often happens to me, as it will to everybody. I suspect that
it is due to the first message from every subscriber being moderated,
therefore being delayed for quite some time before an admin looks over it.

William.

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