ra@rlgvax.UUCP (Rick Adams) (10/25/83)
The official distribution goal of Usenet is to have an article transmitted
to 95% of all other sites within 24 hours. Following is a table of the
propagation delay to rlgvax (i.e. Date-Received minus Date-Sent). rlgvax gets
its news hourly from seismo, so there is not much error if we
assume that these numbers also apply to seismo. Since, seismo is a "backbone"
site, we aren't doing as well as we would like.
No. of Cumulative
Days Articles Percent
1 1300 48%
2 631 72%
3 191 79%
4 134 84%
5 136 89%
6 97 93%
7 94 97%
8 13 97%
9 31 98%
10 20 99%
11 8 99%
12 1 99%
13 1 99%
14 1 100%
The longest delays seems to be from Oregon/Washington and Toronto/Waterloo
Both take 5-7 days on the average. The very long delays (over 9) may be a
result of the old articles that have been resubmitted recently.
Rick Adams
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