Re: Mail to this list is slow?

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:48:35PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
     On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:16:55PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
     > Theodoros Foradis <theodoros.for@openmailbox.org> writes:
     > > James Richardson writes:
     > >> John Darrington writes:
     > >>> A number of people have said that mail to this list takes a long time to 
     > >>> show up.  Today I too have noticed that some of my patches have not (yet)
     > >>> appeared in the archives.
     > >>
     > >> I've posted a patch several hours ago, haven't seen it in the archives.
     > >
     > > A couple of days ago, I sent a patch series, which I resent after about
     > > 16 hours , and only then it appeared duplicate in the mailing
     > > list. There seems to be some issue.
     > 
     > Usually, the first emails to the lists take a little while longer to
     > appear.  After that things should be faster.
     
     I had this experience, too. I assume it's some sort of spam mitigation.
     Generally these mailing lists deliver mail more or less instantaneously,
     but the first time is slow.

I don't understand what is meant by "the first time".  Are you saying the first
ever email the list receives is slow, but all subsequent ones are faster - or
are you saying something else?

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