Posted by Gordon Burditt on 04/23/06 07:13

>FYI, you may want to read to ensure that the question hasn't been answered
>the same way you're about to answer it. It is bad form; the question was
>answered twelve minutes prior to you posting the same thing.

I did. Remember that USENET transmission is not instantaneous.
Also, article composition takes time. It used to be that a feed
that was getting articles 3 days old from the far side of the net
(consisting largely of UUCP feeds) was operating unusually better
than normal.

Even now, I doubt that even all well-connected servers get a posted
article within 2 hours of when it is posted on one of them.

Gordon L. Burditt

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