Posted by John Dunlop on 04/23/06 12:11

Gordon Burditt:

> 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.

And some articles simply don't arrive on some servers.

Besides, it seems the original poster somehow misconstrued Michael's
followup and has now confused the HTML notation @ with the
percent-encoding %40.

It is now necessary to point out that @ is a way of representing
<@> *in* *HTML*, not in URLs (it means something very different in
URLs), and that as far as the URL is concerned, <@> is still
"unescaped". %40 (for the third time :-) is the percent-encoding of
<@>.

--
Jock

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