Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:26 PM 23-09-97 -0700, you wrote: > >It's not Majordomo, it's the internet nodes, amount of traffic, which >hardware is up, which hardware is down, your local ISP's current load, are >they doing a backup? lines that are up & down, power outages... basically a >world wide phenomonen. If a node and/or route goes down, messages are >re-routed, this causes backpressure, and the ripple can circumvent the >globe numerous times before things even out again. During this ripple, >messages are stored but not forwarded until available routes are not >overloaded. It's sort of like a living organism. And can be modeled as a >biological process. > >Jim Except that the problems only arise with the LUG; none of the other mail lists that I subscribe to have these problems. Dan C.