I concur - I have the same kinds of empirical evidence
that lists.plug is differently functioned.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Derek Neighbors wrote:

> Fairly certain its not on my end as others have complained, but more
> importantly I'm on numerous email lists with more traffice and run about
> 600-800 messages daily and only have this problem with the plug list.
>
> FWIW: its spotty, sometimes plug returns things within minutes other times
> it nears 45 minutes.
>
> -Derek
>
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> > Is it certain that the delay is with the Plug mail server and not the initial
> > mail server (yours or Cox's or whoever) sending/receiving the message?  I have
> > gotten all my messages back within about 10 min of posting (the time I have NS
> > set to autocheck for new messages).
> >
> > > > Where is the mail list server and what kind of hardware is it on?  There
> > > > is something definitely up with it.  As it regularly holds mail for 30-45
> > > > minutes and oftern times I will send 2 or 3 mails to it in a matter of
> > > > minutes and they will get posted back to the list in a different order.  I
> > > > have seen this happen to others as well.  It really should be fixed.
> > >
> > > I've noticed in the headers that all our messages are going through mybutt
> > > (hardy har har).  ns2.sequoia.net and ns3.lufthans.com are doing DNS for
> > > the plug.phoenix.az.us domain.  lists.plug.phoenix.az.us has two MX
> > > records.  The priority 10 MX record points to lists.plug.phoenix.az.us and
> > > priority 20 points to pluglist.mybutt.net.  Both of these servers are on
> > > the same IP, however, which is the pluglist.mybutt.net box
> > > (cpe-24-221-56-24.az.sprintbbd.net).
> > >
> > > So I'm wondering if lists.plug.phoenix.az.us was pointed to mybutt (hardy
> > > har har) a while back when we were having list problems, but was never
> > > pointed back to the PLUG IP: 68.14.214.151
> > > (wsip68-14-214-151.ph.ph.cox.net).
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to host the list on a server at my work, if hardware is the
> > > problem.  But if it's just a configuration issue, we really need to fix it
> > > because it's frustrating when messages take so long to be processed.
> > > ~M
> > >
> > > ________________________________________________
> > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
> > >
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> > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> > ________________________________________________
> > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
> >
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> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> >
>
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