On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Hector <sant9442@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For IETF mailing lists like this, I would prefer to use my real > "professional" email address hsantos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. However, since it often > takes over 24 hours or longer, and in cases over the year "lost" (never > posted), I regularly now use my junk gmail.com alias account which is posted > on the IETF list "immediately" with a copy sent my santronics.com account > hosting server and picked up within minutes of my next mail reader pop3 > poll. You should post an email that had this problem _with full headers_ to action@xxxxxxxx, which will open a trouble ticket. It is possible you have been caught up in the anti-spam system, or you may have uncovered some other problem. Regards Marshall > > Have others experience similar delays with their accounts? and had to use > other domains, like gmail.com? > > When I first begin to take notice a while back and last year I decided to > ask the list admin. He replied shortly and indicated there was no > moderation. I also asked a few IETF veterans, a WG chair and AD, and they > all repeated there was no moderation going on. > > But I believe I read an IETF person in the list explained delays was mostly > due to moderation. If so, while I don't see any reason for it, I was never > given any notice my email would be moderated and I would like to ask why my > email is being moderated? > > Of course, it doesn't make sense because if there was moderation it would be > on the address and not the "person" since I can post via gmail.com. > > If not the case, trying to provide the benefit of doubt and seeking a > logical reason for it, I figured the IETF list/MTA software is using some > custom outbound queuing/scheduling logic with a higher preference for email > domain volume, i.e. gmail.com at the top and individual domain accounts last > in its scheduling logic. Since gmail.com is a popular account used by many > in this list, maybe that would explain why the MTA sending this out faster > than others. I offered this logical out reason to the list admin and he > wasn't sure of the legacy software queuing logic. > > Anyway, just trying to figure out why the delays since I can stick with my > real account and not the gmail.com junk account. > > Thanks > > -- > HLS