tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (10/04/89)
In <1989Oct1.233559.8061@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
Mark> Well, speaking from a site which news often takes 2-3 days to reach AFTER
Mark> it reaches the city, I can sure agree that it isn't true for everyone.
Mark> Can someone in a position to know much about it please post to tell just
Mark> how widespread these NNTP links are these days?
I don't know that any survey has come up with the number of sites
running NNTP, either as a raw figure or a percentage based on the
estimated number of sites participating in USENET in some form or
another. Most major sites run NNTP as their primary means of
receiving and disseminating news; as a wildly baseless statement, I
suspect that any site which can run NNTP does. Even for a lot of
minor sites, local UUCP polling times seem to be on the upkeep such
that for some areas once an article hits through the NNTP site, it
can make a few local UUCP hops in the course of a quarter of a day,
too. Very small machines with perhaps only one or two frequently used
modems are probably the bulk of sites to which propogation takes a
very long time.
Dave
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