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Acbosgd.141 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Thu Nov 5 09:06:54 1981 Re: harpo.631: speak for yourself The net.columbia articles originate from research, which has a dialer, and are sent directly to other BTL sites which have dialers. I get them on cbosgd (several hops away) long before I hear them on the news.

I don't know exactly how the net configuration looks these days, but I thought that the BTL sites that send news to ucbvax and duke sent it as soon as it came in, since they have dialers and don't have to wait for a poll. Thus, there is no reason why columbia news should be delayed more than a few hours in getting to dukgeri or ucla-s. If this is not the case, would someone from those sites please tell me what the typical routing path of articles they get is, so I can attempt to track down the delay.

Mark

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