--On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 7:11 Uhr +0300 Kenny Chamber <kenny@gem-hs.org> wrote:

How long after posting should it take for a message to appear on the list?

..between seconds and eternity. Since email is based on a store-and-forward protocol you can not expect to see your posting within XXX minutes in every case although this is usually the case if all systems (including all affected mail servers) should work fine. -aj