[R] hypatia problems?

[(Ted Harding)]

Just found John Logsdon's posting (copied below) on the R-help
archives (for which thanks, John). For comparison with what he
put up below (about 1 hour delay), following that is what I'm
getting at the moment (26 hours delay and increasingly steadily:
was 13 hours yesterday evening).

Just wondering if there's something about mailing to my account
which may be causing delay (but the admins at mcc.ac.uk assure
me there's no problem at their end). If anyone else is experiencing
similar problem (though in that case heaven knows when you'll get
this one) it would be useful to hear fron you (direct, please,
and not via the list!).
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> From j.logsdon at lancaster.ac.uk:
> Dear all
> 
> Off topic to some extent but Ted Harding has just called me to say he is
> 
> (a) seeing large delays in the list messages when it is sent internally
> from hypatia.math.ethz.ch. I get only a delay of an hour which is
> reasonable in the scrap below but Ted reports delays of the order 24
> hours,
> 
> (b) messages he has sent to the list don't appear on it for a long time.
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing such difficulties?
> 
> TIA
> 
> John
> 
> Received: from hypatia.math.ethz.ch (mailman at hypatia [129.132.58.23])
>   by hypatia.math.ethz.ch (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id
>   h34DDGfm022344;
>   Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:13:29 +0200 (MEST)
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Received: from eyre.southern.net.au (eyre.southern.net.au
>   [202.182.64.147]) by hypatia.math.ethz.ch (8.12.9/8.12.6) with
>   ESMTP id h33CLFfl025858 for <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>;
>   Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:21:16 +0200 (MEST)
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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By contrast, from a message from r-help just received by me:

  Received: from hypatia.math.ethz.ch (mailman at hypatia [129.132.58.23]) by
   hypatia.math.ethz.ch (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h34FXHg0022987;
   Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:35:46 +0200 (MEST)
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Received: from usryws02.merck.com (taz.merck.com [155.91.6.20]) by
   hypatia.math.ethz.ch (8.12.9/8.12.6) with SMTP id h33DVIfl010695 for
   <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>;
   Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:31:18 +0200 (MEST)
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[26 hours delay]

Thanks, apologies for OT[ish], and best wishes to all.

Ted.


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