Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] has anyone else noticed how slow this list is?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:33:31 -0800 (PST)
> How many people are on this list?

	tooting$ mconnect pow.zing.org <<EOF | wc -l
	> helo tooting
	> expn ethereal-dev-list
	> quit            
	> EOF 
	     125

which means there's probably around 120 people - "mconnect" will spit
out all the stuff you get from "pow.zing.org", including the greeting
message.

"mailq" on "pow.zing.org" shows some messages deferred due to host name
lookup problems (which could involve DNS timeouts, and thus could
involve the message taking a while to time out) - even in the best of
circumstances, it could take a while to deliver to 120 people, and
problems that manifest themselves as timeouts could delay it even more.