On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:08:47AM -0600, Michael Vieths wrote: > What's up with the posts from 10/31/01 that keep popping up? List a little > slow? ;) Yes. Bob, the host of this email list, is trying to "reinject" the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML)[1] emails into Mailman[2], the email list server software that we are using. Mailman, unfortunately, has a klunky archive system called pipermail, the input of which seems only to be through the smtp->mailman alias(5). Because of this limitation, Bob is resending all of the LKML archives to the sendmail server through some perl-script-fu that some of the list members cooked up. That is what is slowing the server down. Sendmail isn't very selective as to where it stuffs received emails. The queue an email gets sent to may not be touched for some time, as you can tell. Any estimate, Bob, on when the LKML reinjection may be finished? I haven't been paying close attention as usual. As a side note, I'd bed that the pipermail stuff can be offloaded to another machine if the interface and programs can be accessed w/o going through the email gateway interface (smtp server). I'll try to dig into the Python source and see what I can see. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. Send email w/the Subject: "get help"