Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Unable to moderate Emacs mailing lists

[Karl Berry]

    it takes tens of seconds to connect.

The problem is a spambot subscription attack against lists.gnu.org.
It's been going on for some time in various guises.  The FSF sysadmins
have been chopping it off as it arises and looking for a permanent
solution.  We can only hope.

k