[p4] Mailing list question - posts seem to take longer thanexpected to show through list

[Mark Ridgwell]

I worked for a company in the UK that did this for a while in the late 
1990s, but using paper. To send an email you typed it out in word, 
printed it out and handed to one of the secretaries for them to retype 
and send.  Incoming emails were printed out and delivered by hand. I 
can't remember what they did for attachments.

It didn't last for very long, they gave up on that idea and installed a 
proper email server after a couple of months I think. Even then I think 
all emails in or out were bcc'd to someone to be approved as they were 
so paranoid that it was going to be abused.

I don't know what they're doing now, I left shortly after that.

Mark

Greg Whitfield wrote:
> It's been a problem with this mailing list for as long as I can
> remember. The interval between send and receive can be many hours. I
> guess that's why we get so many replies to the same question saying the
> same thing - people just don't see the "earlier" replies.
>
> As to why, I guess that's a question for Perforce.
>
> But I do recall a story that could explain it. Several years ago an
> acquaintance of mine was hired by a Mid-East government to advise on
> improving internet access for the state. He was quite surprised to see
> the central government email gateway was a roomful of women who retyped
> every incoming email from abroad - censoring as appropriate - before
> passing on a paper copy to the intended recipient. As a result
> turnaround time was measured in hours or even days.
>
> The story may be apophrical, of course :)   But imagine the carnage when
> spam started to get popular!
>
> Greg
> ~~~~
>
> Sent 21:55 GMT.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Looney, James B
> Sent: 07 November 2007 15:07
> To: Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: [p4] Mailing list question - posts seem to take longer
> thanexpected to show through list
>
> Why is it that posts seem to take a very, very, very long time to show
> back up through the mailing list?
>