At 9:04 PM -0700 8/24/97, Anonymous wrote:
Tim May wrote:
By the way, which list address are you now subscribed to...I switched from algebra. com to cyberpass.net, but now expect to see 2-3 hours delay before posts appear.
(This applies to others, too. I'm getting replies to my posts, when sent directly to me, literally hours before seeing it on the list. Someone mentioned subscribing to toad.com, which, to tell the truth, I thought had vanished as a list origination site months ago.)
If you subscribe to cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com you will get almost immediate receipt of toad.com posts much of the day. Algebra.com is generally only a short time lag behind, although this varies (and you get duplicates of the toad.com posts). The advantage of toad.com is that it gives you feedback as to the time-lag of the distributed lists. The advantages of the distributed lists is that you can change among them if one is temporarily having problems.
Ah, so when I send my messages to "cypherpunks@algebra.com" they come back more quickly from toad.com? Somehow I doubt this. I've been sending nearly all of my posts to either the algebra.com or the cyberpass.net addresses, and the toad.com address is set to expire, or so John told us when he gave us a deadline for finding another site. I've mentioned this a couple of times, and yet some of you seem to think the toad.com address is the preferred, fastest one. Would some of the operators of the distributed lists comment on the time delays, on the topology of the interlinked distributed list, and on what role, if any, toad.com continues to play in the process? Igor, Lance, Jim, John? Posts like this one from Anonymous, while perhaps accurate (or perhaps not, I really don't know) are not as convincing as words straight from those involved. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."