Thanks, Pete. Though that was mostly greek to me I get the general gist. Nope, the mail delays aren't linear--for a given piece of mail, some get it fairly quickly and some not for days. Jilla >Remember that LISTSERV distributions are not linear i.e., they >don't go from the LISTSERV hosting site directly to the >subscriber. It depends upon a "host" ;-) of other sites and >facilities. > >In particular SMTP at PSUVM.PSU.EDU is having some form of >difficulty with the LISTSERV PEER host PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM. >This difficulty might relate to resolving the IP address between >the clients, stub resolvers, DNS caches, though probably NOT the >authoritative DNSes,. IP connectivity (PING and TRACEROUTE) to >that host does not appear to be the problem. > >I had noticed THAT over the weekend and have made cognizant PSUVM >sysadmins (I am not one there) aware of this difficulty and have >participated in some conjecturing/probing. > >-- co-owner: INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L >URL:mailto:[log in to unmask] "I've been cybertagged :-("