17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On 18 Feb 1997, Bryan Reece wrote:
Filtering out other gateways' messages will reduce load at the possible expense of delay (assuming a smallish network of news servers that feed each other the list; obviously the message will flood the majordomo net before it floods the real usenet unless something is seriously broken).
Why is it obvious that mail propagation will be faster than news propagation? News propagation times of small numbers of seconds are not at all uncommon. --apb (Alan Barrett)