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At 9:31 AM 4/10/96, Richard Mateosian wrote:
>When you post to the list, the list server has to send your message to over
>600 addresses. This takes some time, and a queue of messages can build up.
>When the server has to verify your message, it only needs to send you email,
>which isn't time consuming and probably goes ahead of the queued postings.
Just as an example, the message I just sent on the information mapping
seminar took exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds to get back to me. Ain't this
modern technology grand?
