Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-02-01T18:50:22Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

2010/2/1 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>>        * A sends a message
>>>>        * B replies, cc'ing A and the list
>>>>        * B's reply to list is delayed by greylisting
>>>>        * A replies to B's reply (cc'ing list)
>>>>        * A's reply goes through immediately
>>>>        * B's reply shows up a bit later
>>>>
>>>> That happens pretty frequently IME.
>>
>>> Yeah - and sometimes the delay can be DAYS.
>>
>> Greylisting wouldn't explain a delay of more than an hour or so.
>> OTOH, if B's reply got held for moderation for some reason, then
>> yeah it could be days :-(.  But in that case the rest of the list
>> didn't see it in real-time either, so having it show up out of
>> "logical" sequence in the archive doesn't seem like a terrible
>> reflection of reality.  I'm just concerned about the threading not
>> being sensitive to skews on the order of a few minutes --- those
>> are extremely common.
>
> I not infrequently receive messages out of sequence by time periods
> well in excess of a few minutes.
>
> Don't know why, but I do.

Quite often, it's stuck in the moderation queue.

Not quite as often, but still fairly frequently, it's stuck somewhere
in the hub.org relaying/antispam blackbox.


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