3.8-hour email delay yesterday

[Jim Meyering]

Hi,

Yesterday I posted this message:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/124962/focus=124987

The trouble is that it didn't appear anywhere for almost 4 hrs.
When it finally did arrive, I ran this to see where it got stuck:

  $ mail-delay 680
                        rho.meyering.net   Fri May 21 07:58:21 2010 +0200 (CEST)
                       smtp1-g21.free.fr ?                0 seconds
                       smtp1-g21.free.fr                  1 seconds
                            eggs.gnu.org                 17 seconds
                            eggs.gnu.org ?                3.8 hours !!!!
                           lists.gnu.org ?                3 seconds
                           lists.gnu.org ?               35 seconds
                        rho.meyering.net                  0 seconds

I checked the debbug queue to make sure it wasn't waiting
for moderator approval there.  It wasn't.

Any idea what happened?

Regards,

Jim


P.S. Normally I wouldn't have noticed, but this time, I wanted to get a
URL to send privately to a maintainer.  Annoyed at having to wait and wait,
eventually I simply resent a copy.