Re: csa2 chronicles: the next generation?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <54rg8t$o26@news.emi.com>, Edhel Iaur <drsmooth@relex.com> wrote:
>Where the heck IS it?  Did some insecure guy cancel it?

   Tip one of usenet: it propagates, not the 'everyone gets a gopy at
the same instant.' Basically, once you post, that post is on your
local news server. At [ir]regular intervals, your news server contacts
some other news servers (depends on the setup; these connections are
usually local), and gives it to them. They pass it on to others until
(hopefully) each news server has one copy. The speed at which things
travel can be random, with path A->B slower than a response going A-C'->B.

   Thus, if you're on the back end of things, it can take a day or few
for messages to appear. [Caltech's news servers were generally that
way; visi.com is most cool in their having a news server that gets
things quickly.

   And no, it hasn't been canceled, at least not at visi and caltech to
the time of this writing.

Nathan Mates

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