mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/14/89)
> Nope. This just ain't true. Mail between Internet sites takes > place practically immediately. Most mail gets delivered in a > matter of minutes, regardless of how far apart the sites are > physically. Depends not on physical distance, but on number of links and how busy they are. For us at b.scs.uiuc.edu two hours is a reasonable time. One mailer it uses traces progress of mail at least partways, and it can get bogged at a couple of places. Doug McDonald (at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu, NOT b.scs.uiuc.edu, which I hate as the progress messages clutter up my screen)