Hiya Arnold, This is well known in some circles. Posts to the list are manually approved by the RIPE NCC to reduce spam, unless you send the message from an account which is subscribed (to that individual list I believe). That is why my messages have the sender djp-ripe-lists@djp.net, because that is the address under which I am subscribed and my messages appear almost immediately :) Cheers Dave Normally, djp@djp.net BT Ignite GmbH On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Nipper, Arnold wrote: ->A little bit OT: I notify that the order of distribution is more or less ->randomly. Anyone else noticed this as well? IMHO it's quite contraproductive ->for discussions ... -> ->Examples: -> ->sent 2001/10/10 17:24 recv 2001/10/11 09:57 ->sent 2001/10/10 19:09 recv 2001/10/11 10:03 ->sent 2001/10/10 17:43 recv 2001/10/11 18:08 -> -> ->-- Arnold ->