Oh.

Thanks.

-Steven


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> > P.S. Sorry if this is showing up twice. I didn't see it posted at first,
> > and figured it's because I ticked the "conceal email address" option, so
> it
> > went overboard and concealed my email by just not posting my message.
>
> This is the first time your address is seen to the mailing list.
> Spammers like to subscribe and then post messages to scam the "must be
> subscribed to post" filters which renders them useless.  Therefore all
> new subscribers are moderated until they post a valid message.  After
> the initial valid email posting then you are unmoderated subsequently.
>
> It looks like you posted your message at 09:31:53 -0600 and it was
> delivered at 15:24:07 -0600.  Volunteers are sometimes busy with jobs
> and life.
>
> Additionally the network through the lists.gnu.org machine is often
> saturated delivering email especially when people attach multimegabyte
> files (log files, pictures, screenshots, pdfs, random things) that are
> delivered to hundreds or thousands of subscribers multiplying the
> bandwidth significantly.  That will often cause the mailing list to
> have long delays in being able to deliver all mail through it even
> small ones.  To curb that problem large emails are also held for
> moderation.
>
> Additionally there has until recently been a problem where the mailing
> list machine would inappropriately think it was overloaded and
> throttle delivery until the load subsided.  That was also causing long
> mailing list delivery delays to appear out of the blue.  That
> particular problem has been fully mitigated now.
>
> Bob
>
>