[OT] Extreme delays in delivery...

[Gilles]

Hello.

[I'm sorry to bother the list with mail management problems; in case there
is a better place, please let me know.]

Earlier today, I already mentioned there were big delays, and in fact I've
now received the posting (with subject "Auto-beam override") which I thought
was lost.
Here is an excerpt of the mail header:


Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org)
        by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
        id 1FChdI-0003cW-Hd
        for address@hidden; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:25:36 -0500
Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43)
        id 1FCB4p-00029h-TD
        for address@hidden; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:39:52 -0500
Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43)
        id 1FC9ZB-0006Vt-4G
        for address@hidden; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:04:04 -0500
Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org)
        by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FC3os-0005ui-HA
        for address@hidden; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:54:55 -0500
Received: from [193.74.71.23] (helo=oola.is.scarlet.be)
        by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FC3vS-0005ZS-4s
        for address@hidden; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:01:43 -0500

It show thats the mail had been in transit in "lists.gnu.org" during
~6 hours ("spam-scanned"), plus ~1 hour and a half ("tmda-scanned")
and finally ~35 hours, totalling to over 42 hours!

This is rather long, isn't it?


Are the maintainers of the machines/softwares involved aware of the
problem?  Is this going to be fixed, or should we be getting used to
the situation?


Best regards,
Gilles