lab@qubix.UUCP (Larry Bickford) (02/03/84)
Even though the news flow slowed to a trickle, at least one article was
VERY determined to get through:
Path: qubix!sun!decwrl!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!alberta!ihnp4!
cbosgd!mhuxl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!harpo!seismo!
hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall
From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.nlang
Subject: A question; articles in Aramaic
Message-ID: <1640@randvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 21:40:39 PST
Article-I.D.: randvax.1640
Posted: Sun Feb 5 21:40:39 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 18:30:47 PST
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Observations:
23 machines, including sender and receiver (probably more for leonard
and idi, which qubix feeds).
General geographic path: up the West Coast, across to the East Coast
(for a vacation in New Jersey), back to the Midwest, Up to Canada
(completing a second cross-country journey), down to Washington, then
going across the country non-stop, only to turn around and come back
non-stop. Four transcontinental journeys.
And it got here 9 days before the author posted it...
Larry Bickford, ihnp4!{sun,amd70,decwrl}!qubix!labedhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) (02/06/84)
----------------------------- That's bizzare! Larry Bickford posts the header of article of mine, and the date of posting in that header is FORTEEN DAYS later than the day I actually posted it. This is what Larry received: Message-ID: <1640@randvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 21:40:39 PST Article-I.D.: randvax.1640 Posted: Sun Feb 5 21:40:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 18:30:47 PST And this is what a peek at /usr/spool/news reveals: Message-ID: <1640@randvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 21:40:39 PST Article-I.D.: randvax.1640 Posted: Sun Jan 22 21:40:39 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jan-84 21:40:39 PST So, Larry, whatever the reason was for your receiving the article `9 days before the author posted it', you'll have to blame one of the 22 other sites the message visited... -Ed `well-traveled' Hall decvax!randvax!edhall