Re: RD March issue

[arthur marsh <marsh@ties.itu.int>]

I was extremely critical of newsgroup propagation for some years, but
since Telstra Internet Services / BigPond Direct have gone to making
multiple newsfeed connections to the outside world, it hasn't been so bad.

I'm seeing follow-ups to my own postings sometimes in the same session
that I'm writing messages, and the news server that I am using is in
Geneva, Switzerland.

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Geoff Lambert wrote:

> "Derek Rogers" <DekRogers@bigpond.com> [ON 9th March] wrote:
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> >Further to last month’s discussion of RD......
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> >The magazine was available to ARHS members last Wednesday
> >and the subscription copies were posted this morning.
> 
> And I received them in the mail 6 days ago.... who says Australia Post
> is slow?!  But, the above message, which arrived on my server on 18/3,
> is dated 9/3.  Did this message get relayed by the Pioneer 12
> spacecraft, currently nearly 4 light days from Earth?  So how, if at
> all, are newsgroups on different source servers "coordinated"
> world-wide so that dialogues look like dialogues instead of voices out
> of the blue.  How does a message get delayed for a week?  Is this a
> problem with Big Pond, do the minnows get lost in the big pond?
> 
> Geoff Lambert
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