Re: List response time...

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2001 19:45, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> Actually, the 'multi-day' delay is generally related to posts from ppl
>> that aren't subscribed to the lists that I have to approve manually ...

> I have been getting delayed duplicates from people (ie, Tom Lane) addressed 
> to only the hackers list (which I know he's subscribed to).

The approval delay isn't only for people who are not subscribed.  Marc
also has a number of filters in there that are intended to shunt off
administrivia (ie, people who send uns*bscribe commands to the whole
list).  This is not a bad idea, but unfortunately, his filter patterns
are WAY too loose IMHO.  I've had posts delayed because of references
to c*ncel, s*b-SELECT, and some other words that I could hardly even
see the connection to administrivia requests.

Hoping that this post gets through without being delayed ;-)
        regards, tom lane